Writer Guide

Figure 112: Defining the space above and below a table

Tip

To check the top and bottom spacing for ordinary paragraphs:

Position the cursor in a paragraph and press

F11

(unless the

Styles and Formatting window is already open). Check that the

Styles and Formatting window shows paragraph styles (top left

button).

The current style should be highlighted. If no paragraph style

is highlighted, select All Styles in the bottom drop-down list.

Right-click on it and select Modify from the pop-up list.

Go to the

Indents & Spacing

page and look in the

Spacing

area

for the values in

Above paragraph

and

Below paragraph

You may also want to turn off number recognition so that Writer will

not try to format numbers if you want them to be plain text. To turn

number recognition off:

1) Right-click in the table and then click Number Format on the

pop-up menu.

2) On the Number Format dialog box (Figure 113), make sure the