Word – How to add spacing between a table and the paragraph immediately after it

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My Body Text style has space below, but not above, and I want it to stay that way. Now, when I insert a table between two paragraphs of Body Text, I get no space between the table and the subsequent paragraph, and it seems like the only thing I can do about it is change that specific paragraph's spacing, manually adding about the same space as it has below*. There's no apparent setting for space before and after a table (like we have in LibreOffice).

What do I do?

* – I actually use a Body-Text-based style for post-table paragraphs, but that still doesn't cut it.

Best Answer

  1. Right click the table and select table properties.
  2. On the Table Tab under text wrapping select 'Around' and click 'Positioning. . . '
  3. Under 'Distance from surrounding text' click the 'Bottom' option and enter the value of spacing you want beneath the table.