For lack of a better term, I’m going to refer what I want to accomplish as space after groups.
Is there a way to have a paragraph style with space after only affecting the last line of a group of text with several lines with paragraph returns?
The workaround I typically use is create a style with space after, then use find/change to change the paragraph return to a forced line break—but it won’t work in every instance.
A common example is numbered/bulleted lists. Say you want single spacing for the list but space after on the last line. If I were to do a forced line break, it would be a part of the previous list and not a new one.
My workaround for that is to duplicate the style, then add a space after and manually change the last line I want to change. This way, I can use Find/Change to easily change it back instead of doing a local override.
There has to be a better way. A Script? Nested Style? GREP? A setting I’m missing?
Microsoft Word has this feature. In Paragraph settings under Space Before & After, there’s a checkbox that reads “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style.
Any suggestions?
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