: How can I set more spacing around a list than between each list element in MS Word? So I'm trying to mimic this in my MS Word (Office 365) .docx file but failing: Specifically, I need
So I'm trying to mimic this in my MS Word (Office 365) .docx file but failing:
Specifically, I need the spacing around the entire list to be greater than between each list element.
Perhaps I could achieve this result if I were to edit each line manually, but my goal is to use stylesheets, as I do with all the text in this file (a manuscript), so that I can simply select a list that's already present in the manuscript and apply the desired formatting to it.
I've gone through all paragraph stylesheet and list formatting style options, yet I can't seem to find a way to get this result, as Word treats both lines as separate paragraphs, despite the fact that I'm using Word's automatic list formatting.
Has anyone else, perhaps, run into this challenge before and would be willing to share some wisdom?
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Text layout software usually doesn’t have an option to space an entire list element, like CSS has for example. So the spacing between these paragraphs are always paragraph settings. In your case, your main text paragraph style (but not your list text paragraph style) would need a “space before” and “space after” value.
If you apply that and don’t like the result (i.e. because that space is unwanted in other places where there is no list) you would have to create variations of your existing styles to be applied in specific instances, e.g. “last paragraph before a list” or something like that. Not really recommendable, but sometimes its unavoidable.
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