Sumit has set up the “body text” style in his word document so that it only has “space after” and has zero “space before.”
This works great for laying out his document, except when it comes to tables.
The paragraph following the table ends up being too close to the table, and Sumit wants some space between the table and a “body text” paragraph following the table. He wonders if Word can put “space after” a table.
Not really, in the sense of “space after” for a paragraph. This can cause some issues when it comes to vertical spacing after tables, as Brian points out.
There are two things you can do to work around this problem.
First, you could define another style, perhaps called “body after table,” which is based on the “body text” style.
The only difference would be that the “body after table” style would have space before the paragraph, not just after. This style can then be applied to the first paragraph after any tables, with the “body text” style used for the rest of the paragraphs.
The other option is to insert an extra row at the end of your tables. This row should have no text and should be formatted so that it has no borders.
You can adjust the row’s height to reflect the space you want between the main portion of the table and your following text.
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