
I normally have parskip and parsep set to zero, so the spacing is even (using flushbottom and then tweaking, as above) but if I remove the parskip and parsep settings, the document will eliminate the space, but the distance between paragraphs is different to the distance between lines. I feel the need not to do this in future, as it seems stupid to sacrifice content just to fulfil layout, and most professionally published novels in fact allow their line spacing to change to eliminate widows. This has often meant I needed to change wording to prevent widows from causing gaps at the bottom of the page. The resulting table is the same, visually, but without all the unnecessary paragraph marks! Now, you can modify, add, and even delete headings without messing up the format of the heading row.I've written two novels so far using LaTeX, however I've had to take great pains to use flushbottom to produce even line/paragraph spacing (I had an obsession with getting the lines on opposing pages to line through). In the Vertical alignment section, click Center.Check the Specify Height option (in the Size section) and enter the appropriate measurement, say.Right-click the selection and choose Table Properties from the resulting context menu.First, to control the height of the header row, do the following:


A better solution is to control the spacing and alignment using table properties.

The extra returns can cause a lot of frustration down the road. If you delete or add to a header, you can end up with a mess and users might spend a lot of time trying to fix it. All you’ve really done is to add a bunch of unnecessary empty paragraphs, and that’s never a good thing. In an effort to make the row larger, users add a row of blank space above and below, as shown below the text. Something I see too frequently is the misuse of hard returns (paragraph marks) in a table’s heading row. To format a heading row properly and consistently, use table properties, not empty paragraphs. The right way to control spacing in a Word table
