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Aidan28610574w1n9
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March 21, 2023
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How to increase the height between these two paragraph styles in InDesign?

  • March 21, 2023
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See the yello space highlighted

How do I increase this between these two different paragraph styles without having to increase the leading on the whole paragraph style?

 

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Correct answer Manan Joshi

It messes your document probably because this same paragraph style might be used in other locations as well and over there you might not be needing the extra space. So you have two options now.

  • If the space is related to this particular area only then you could even try "Space Before" for the paragraph style used in the body section of the content that you showed. Do note that this would again be a document wide change and if that style is used elsewhere then you might have the same problem that you have currently
  • Create a new style for just some special cases where you do need space and apply that instead of the normal one. Like say the current style is names red_heading_nospaceafter, the new one could be red_heading_spaceafter and then you use one or the other based on the need.

-Manan

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Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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March 21, 2023

Try "Space After" found under the Indents and Spacing tab in Paragraph Styles.

 

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Aidan28610574w1n9Author
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March 21, 2023

And which paragraph style do I increase that in ?

It just messes up my other paragraphy styles when i use it for some reason

Is this the correct way?

 

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Manan JoshiCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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March 21, 2023

It messes your document probably because this same paragraph style might be used in other locations as well and over there you might not be needing the extra space. So you have two options now.

  • If the space is related to this particular area only then you could even try "Space Before" for the paragraph style used in the body section of the content that you showed. Do note that this would again be a document wide change and if that style is used elsewhere then you might have the same problem that you have currently
  • Create a new style for just some special cases where you do need space and apply that instead of the normal one. Like say the current style is names red_heading_nospaceafter, the new one could be red_heading_spaceafter and then you use one or the other based on the need.

-Manan

-Manan
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