You can increase or decrease the spacing before or after paragraphs.
Use the Line Spacing control in the format bar to quickly change the distance before or after paragraphs. To adjust spacing before or after paragraphs, select the text, and then click the Line Spacing control in the format bar.
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Select the paragraphs you want to change.
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Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text button, and then click Text.
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Drag the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph slider. You can also specify a precise value (5 pt, for example) in the text boxes.
If the Before Paragraph or After Paragraph values for adjacent paragraphs aren’t equal, the higher spacing value will be used. For example, if the current paragraph’s Before Paragraph value is 12 points and the paragraph preceding it has an After Paragraph value of 14 points, the spacing between paragraphs will be 14 points.
Spacing before a paragraph does not appear if the paragraph is the paragraph in a text box, shape, or table cell.
To set spacing around text in boxes, shapes, and table cells, use the Inset Margin control, described in Changing the Inset Margin of Text in Objects.