Remove Space After Table

Question

Hi everyone,

Whenever I create a table, there is automatically a space that is created below the table that I can't get rid of. This is normally not a problem, except that I would like to have a table as a header and would like body of the document to butt up against the header. I therefore need to get rid of the space. Any ideas?

Answer 1

That space (paragraph mark) is an intrinsic part of table creation. You cannot get rid of it. However, you can change its size. Turn on display of paragraph marks and other formatting.

Showing non-printing formatting marks in Microsoft Word

Go into the header and select that paragraph mark.

Go to the Home Tab and in the font size type 1 and press Enter.

You may want to get rid of the top border on the table you want to be flush with the header. It won't be flush, but it will be very close.

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Answer 2

A better way to accomplish the appearance you want is to make the first two rows part of the rest of the table (not part of the page header), and mark them as "repeating header rows". To do that, select the two rows together and click the Repeat Header Rows button on the Table Tools | Layout tab:

As the screen shot shows, as soon as the table splits across a page boundary, the marked rows will be repeated automatically, and there won't be any gap before the new row.