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David31602268ox9z
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October 23, 2023
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Decrease space between two tables

  • October 23, 2023
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I am trying to decrease the space between two tables in a structured document. I have tried a few things, including setting the paragraph designer below paragraph setting to 0 pts. in the last cell of the first table, setting the above paragraph setting in the first cell of the second table to 0 pts, setting the top and bottom table margins to 0 pts in the table designer. None of these have worked.

 

I was able to get the space between my first table and the text before it to a reasonable size by setting the paragraph design for the previous text to Run-In Head, which pulled the anchor into the line with the text. Both tables are set to pgwide, so I don't know how I might be able to pull the anchor for the second table up further or otherwise shrink the distance between tables. 

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    Correct answer David31602268ox9z

    I was able to solve this. With the structured document, I needed to make sure to apply the paragraph spacing rules on some container elements that the tables were within to fix the spacing. 

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    David31602268ox9zAuthorCorrect answer
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    October 23, 2023

    I was able to solve this. With the structured document, I needed to make sure to apply the paragraph spacing rules on some container elements that the tables were within to fix the spacing. 

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      Inspiring
      October 23, 2023

      Try opening the Table Designer and set the 'Bottom' Table Margin for the 1st table to 0 and the 'Top' Table Margin for the 2nd table to 0.  UPDATE: This may only work for Unstructured....

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      David31602268ox9zAuthor
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      October 23, 2023

      I believe I have done so. Here is the table designer Basic section for the top table, the bottom table similarly has 0pt margins for top and bottom. 

      Bob_Niland
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      Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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      October 23, 2023

      In Unstruc, for Table Margins and Paragraph Space Above/Below, the values can be set to negative numbers.

      No idea how that will flow in Struc.
      It's usually used to get second-column table top at actual column top.

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