

If you are using styles, as Anne does, the easiest way to do this is to create two additional styles based on whatever body style you are using in your document. If you want your table to remain inline, then the proper approach to take is to adjust the spacing on the paragraph immediately before the table and the paragraph immediately after the table. If you need the table to always be after a particular paragraph, then you'll want to check after any heavy editing that it is still where you expect it to be. There is one drawback with this approach: Your table now is treated as an independent element in the document, which means that text can flow around it. Click OK to close the Table Properties dialog box.



You can adjust spacing before and after a table my making it non-inline, which is a particularly good approach if your table extends across the entire width of the page. When you insert a table it is, by default, inserted inline. Tables can be either inline or not, the same as text boxes and graphics. There are only two ways to adjust the spacing, and the method you use depends on how the table itself is formatted within your document. She is looking for the best way to control spacing before and after tables. However, this spacing doesn't seem to apply (at least not properly) before and after tables. The paragraph styles she uses for her document body have 6 points before and 6 points after, which provides an aggregated 12 points between paragraphs. Anne is having problems getting the spacing above and below her tables to work properly.
