Hi all,

I am using heading styles that have some "before spacing" set within the style (for instance, a triple space before a heading or a table title). I would like to suppress this spacing when the heading or table title falls at the top of a page to ensure an even top margin width (this is not only common in final manuscripts but often required in my line of work).

I have researched this, and the most detailed article I was able to find seems to indicate that this is not possible.

I see in the article that page breaks would suppress the spacing, but I have to use section breaks because I need the page numbers to reflect correctly in a table of contents linked to the headings (page breaks do not achieve this, at least not consistently).

Having said all of that, I have noticed that, for a reason I have yet to figure out, Word still does sometimes suppress the before spacing after a section break, so I'm clinging to the hope that it is possible to do this consistently.

As mentioned in the linked article above, The advanced option to suppress line spacing at the top of the page does not achieve what I'm referring to in this post. Any ideas on how to suppress the space?