InDesign Adds Extra Blank Lines When Paragraph Leading Matches Baseline Grid

Question

I am modifying a template I purchased and trying to get the paragraph styles and baseline grid to work together nicely. At the moment, when I set the paragraph style leading equal to the baseline grid (best practice, correct?) InDesign adds extra line breaks at the head of the paragraph. Example:

This is all in one text frame. There are two blank lines between the first paragraph and the block quote, and between the block quote and following paragraph. The baseline grid is 14pt. The leading for the paragraphs is 14pt. When I reduce the paragraph leading to 13pt, it goes back to one blank line between the paragraphs, which is what I want.

Paragraph styles do not include any spacing before or after paragraphs that I can see. Am I missing something? Why is the grid/line spacing behaving this way?

EDIT: Apologies, never mind, I found it. There was in fact space added after the paragraph in two of the styles that I hadn’t seen yet. I didn’t realize that there were multiple paragraph styles being used.

jomajupro · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave. I ended up finding the problem shortly after I posted the question. There was a separate paragraph style (with a nearly identical name--that’s why I missed it) that did include space after the paragraph. Once I found that style was being applied, I changed the paragraph style and everything worked as expected.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Answer

Try changing your Type preferences and check “Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs”. See if that affects the alignment.

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