Best practice to create spacing between paragraphs?

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September 26, 2017
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Okay, so I have made a paragraph style called "Quotes" (the red text) that I have put spacing before and after. It works when there is only one quote in the "Main copy" (the cyan text). But when there is two quotes following each other I get to much space between the paragraphs (see attached screenshot). Whats the best practice to get rid of that space and do it correctly?

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Correct answer Barb Binder

Or there's a trick for a one column format:

Currently what I think is going on... Good spacing for one quote, too much for two:

So, minimize the spacing on the Indents and Spacing and then...

Designate the quote as a Span which allows you to set the space above and below separately. It's not "meant" for this, but works perfectly for a 1-column document.

Give it a shot.

Barb Binder

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Or there's a trick for a one column format:

Currently what I think is going on... Good spacing for one quote, too much for two:

So, minimize the spacing on the Indents and Spacing and then...

Designate the quote as a Span which allows you to set the space above and below separately. It's not "meant" for this, but works perfectly for a 1-column document.

Give it a shot.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

RajkurtAuthor

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It works perfect in my test document, THANKS! But as soon as i try to implement it in the real document (1200 pages with 4300 footnotes) Indesign crashes :-(. Do you have any tips for it to prevent the crash or anyway to decrease the file?