Hello!
In this resume:
Internal_Job_Resume.odt (20.1 KB)
How can we reduce or increase the vertical spacing before “To obtain” or “Leadership”?
OK. So I found that the spacing can be changed… not changing any property of any paragraph, nor the padding in the {table “Border” tab}… but changing the height of the table.
Your document is an awful mess of direct formatting. Proper use of Writer features, notably a consistent styling, would ease things. Tables are overkill here and could be better replaced with adequately configured paragraphs (leading to more versatility and stability).
Additionally, your question is ambiguous. Do you want to control vertical space around the tables (then right-click and Table Properties and Table tab) or only vertical spacing for the designated paragraphs (go to Indents & Spacing tab for the paragraph style)?
The document is not mine, is from another place, as I already stated.
Tables are overkill here and could be better replaced with adequately configured paragraphs
Perhaps they use tables in order to achieve those borders (common to several paragraphs)?
Table PropertiesandTabletab […]Indents & Spacingtab for the paragraph style […]
Thanks, that didn’t work when trying to {reduce or increase the vertical spacing before “To obtain” or “Leadership”}.
Before you answered, the question seemed to be solved for me, I wrote there about what did not work.
Beware of such models you find on the net. They are usually developed with Word in mind and rarely follow good typography/formatting practices. The manual formatting inside is the source of many problems when you want to adapt the document to your specific need.
Since the example document is plagued with direct formatting, this could be the cause of the anomalies.
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Tables are overkill here and could be better replaced with adequately configured paragraphs
Perhaps they use tables in order to achieve those borders (common to several paragraphs)?
ajlittoz, How would you achieve those borders (common to several paragraphs)?
First (elusive) answer: don’t use them. Aesthetically (but tastes are personal), they are bad and degrade the overall aspect of the document. IMHO the (too) dark background of the part headings is enough to structure the document
If you look carefully at the tables, you’ll notice they are not all equally wide. This is strongly highlighted by the borders and is really bad. Without borders, this would be less obvious.
The tables were probably designed with Word because they extend into the margins (which, by default, can’t happen in Writer).
Second (constructive) answer: you can merge borders around sequences of homogeneously styled paragraphs so that the border is drwn around the block without intermediate borders. This supposes that the document is correctly styled without direct formatting. Another consequence is also the avoidance of vertical space with empty paragraphs, otherwise the feature is defeated. Vertical space between “parts” can be achieved with spacing outside the border (see the Borders tab).
All in all, I find this resume model full of mistakes and not really appealing. If I’d receive such a copy, I’d put it aside immediately (to look at it as second choice later) if the position required skill in document processing.
[…] you can merge borders around sequences of homogeneously styled paragraphs so that the border is drwn around the block without intermediate borders. […]
Thanks, ajlittoz!
With that method, anyone can achieve designs like:
although complex cases have not “homogeneously styled paragraphs”, so perhaps tables will have to be used:
Thanks again for the information that you have provided!
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Not necessarily. It is much trickier to set it correctly because you must account for various padding or decoration (such as list numbering). But, once again (I’m growing old and begin to stutter), borders are much too conspicuous; so, use them sparingly. This will make for a nicer document.