If those options don’t work, it’s time to break out the major nerd tricks. Just below those choices is “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style”.Ĭhecking that box will remove the before and after spacing, assuming both lines have the same style. Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style Maybe all you need to do is reduce one or both of those. Open the paragraph spacing dialog from the little button at bottom right of the Paragraph section of the ribbon.Ĭheck the Spacing, Before or After settings. Turn ‘Show all’ on (Home | Paragraph | Show All) to see both Paragraph marks (the reverse P or pilcrow, left) and line breaks (angled arrow, right). Paragraph Break vs Line BreakĪ simple way to reduce the line spacing is to switch from the usual Paragraph Break (pressing Enter) for a Line Break (Shift + Enter)Ī Line Break will usually make a smaller gap between two lines. Instead a few options to check and adjust until you get what you want. Selecting a line shows the amount of space Word has allocated above and below the line. The left example has selected the top line.
Here’s an example of standard line spacing (left) and very close spacing (right). It becomes useful when trying some design tricks for headings, for example the title in our Millennium poster. I finished writing the book in April and it has taken me until November to get it all edited and formatted and create the images and cover.Reducing the line spacing or vertical gap between lines in Word paragraphs can be done in six different ways depending on the situationĪdjusting line spacing to put lines very close isn’t usually necessary for regular text. I just did the Remove Leading Whitespace and Parenthetical White Space and did the changes manually and it worked awesome! I was able to rebuild the tables and everything is great now. I began to output the document several pages at a time and located two offending pages. It turns out that something corrupted one of my tables when I ran the GREP and clicked change all. I ran the Remove Trailing Whitespace GREP and after I did it, InDesign would no longer output to PDF. I have struggled with a number of these issues as I originally wrote the book in Word. I have been formatting a 400+ page book that I have written and I am sending it to the printer next week. This query also picks up the double returns and even multiple spaces (but only when the spaces are at the end of a paragraph) so I tend to run this one first.įor more information and a list of GREP characters, see InDesign Help / Find/Change. For long documents, this can be a real nightmare. When it’s just a single space, most of the time they don’t cause any problems, but sometimes they won’t fit on the same line as the punctuation and they force a new line or even a new page. Trailing whitespace refers to one or more spaces, tabs or extra returns at the end of a paragraph, between the final punctuation and the hard return(s). Another preset, this one pulls out all two or more hard returns and replaces with one. Hit Change All and poof! All extra spaces are gone. The Find What line looks a little scary, so just don’t look too closely. If you simply can’t look away, understand that it’s a string of GREP characters that looks for two or more spaces (i.e., em spaces, en spaces, flush spaces, hairspaces, etc.) and replaces all of those with one spacebar space.
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Instead of running a series of searches to weed out all extra spaces, just pick this one preset.
(I place stories on the Pasteboard when I’m not ready to place them on the actual pages.) Place all your files into the InDesign document.The three I am going to show you are using GREP, which uses patterns instead of actual character strings to locate and fix issues in InDesign documents. You can quickly and (painlessly) remove extra spaces by running one or more Find/Change queries. Too many extra spaces in your InDesign documents? No problem. Posted on: December 9th, 2009 Author: barb.binder Category: Adobe InDesign By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Home / Adobe InDesign / Adobe InDesign: Removing Unwanted Spaces, Fast! Adobe InDesign: Removing Unwanted Spaces, Fast!
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