How to Reduce Paragraph Spacing While Keeping Text Aligned to the Baseline Grid in InDesign

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March 13, 2026
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The document I am working with, the author wants spaces between the paragraphs, not indents. As a result, the book is getting too long and I was wondering if there’s any way of reducing the spacing between the paragraphs and still not losing the text alignment with the baseline.

Kindly see the revised file...thank you so much again

part1.indd

Correct answer Peter Kahrel

If you want to keep the text aligned to the baseline grid you can change the space between paragraphs only in multiples of the grid, that is, no space, one line space, two line spaces. There’s no way around that.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @chi wail72431016 , Also, this might help on baseline grid alignment rules:

Peter Kahrel

Correct answer

Community Expert

If you want to keep the text aligned to the baseline grid you can change the space between paragraphs only in multiples of the grid, that is, no space, one line space, two line spaces. There’s no way around that.

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chi wail72431016Author

Inspiring

Is it considered a bad practice if i simply turn the baseline grid off and let teh text simply flow?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Peter has the best suggestion, so if for example, your text is say 11/14pt , set the baseline grid to 7pt and you can then set the paragraphs to half a line space, which will look better than a whole blank line space and safe you some overall document length.

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