Yes, this topic must have missed going viral but now it has another chance. I can reproduce the problem and agree that it wouldn't be commonly desired behaviour.

It appears that the issue restarts on each row so an end-of-cell marker doesn't separate the styles but an end-of-row marker does.

I would say that it is a glitch that requires a workaround. I would put a tiny empty paragraph at the bottom of the first cell which has a different style (I call my style for this purpose Spacer). This will force the next cell to start the style run afresh and give you the same space before as the first cell.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia