
(Note: the old Alt-A, R shortcut still works to open the Table Properties dialog box.

A positive value would add additional space between words (in addition to standard spacing for the font). Controlling cell margins for the table as a whole If the word-spacing property is expressed as a fixed value, it can be either a positive or negative value. Select the contents you want to remove space, click Home > Line and Paragraph Spacing to display the drop-down list. In Word, to remove space before or after paragraph, you can use the utilities in Line and Paragraph Spacing drop-down list. Select the paragraphs that you want to remove the spaces, click Home > Paragraph Settings launcher, see screenshot: 2. The cell margin is the distance between the edge of the cell (whether you are displaying borders or not) and the text.īy default, the cell margins are 0 for the top and bottom margins, and 0.19cm for the left and right margins. Remove paragraph spacing by Line and Paragraph Spacing function. The better way is to control cell margins. It's annoying to do it's hard to keep consistent and it adds to the size, weight and complexity of your document. When we press Enter to create vertical space, we are adding empty paragraphs to the document. Don't use empty paragraphs to create extra vertical space, as this user has done

Figure 2: I've displayed non-printing characters here, to see the empty paragraphs.
