Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the clear explanation. So just to confirm, if my heading 1 style has 12pt after and my heading 2 style has 18pt before, is there no way to restrict the space between heading 1 and heading 2 to 12pt, while still getting 18pt between body text and heading 2?

As for suppressing the space at the top of the page, I could have sworn when I wrote the original post that it wasn't suppressed by default and selecting the compatibility option "suppress extra line spacing at top of page" made a difference (I'm not using any hard page breaks). I must have been going mad though as trying it now it's behaving exactly as you describe.

Thanks again for your help.

Tim