I configured my "Normal" paragraph style to have 10pt spacing before and after.

Within word tables, however, I would like no (0pt) spacing before and after paragraphs.

The closest I came was by checking the table style paragraph setting called "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style".

This only works to my satisfaction when I have a normal paragraph before a table. If the table comes immediately after a heading, the first cell still has this annoying spacing.

I know I could manually mark the cells of the offending table and override the paragraph spacing, but shouldn't this be achievable with some pretty straightforward style configuration?

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After a lot of trial and error I have found a configuration that so far seems to work pretty well:

Standard style: 10pt before, 10pt after

Table style: 'Auto' before, 'Auto' after

And the result:

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Assuming you haven't tried this already, consider creating a separate paragraph style for table Paragraphs. Apply it to the first one, others should follow, or apply globally to the table.

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Create a style for tables that is based on the regular style. "MyTableNormal". Edit the new style to override the spacing options - spacing before 0pt, spacing after 0pt. You'll get no vertical spacing but the table contents will otherwise be styled the same as un-tabled text. If you update Normal to use Arial instead of Calibri or size 9 instead of 11.5, etc., the MyTableNormal-styled table contents will update to match, and keep the right spacing.

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