

If you scroll through the list of options on the tab, you will see two of interest. The layout options in the Word Options dialog box.
#HOW TO ADD PARAGRAPH SPACING IN WORD 2013 PLUS#
#HOW TO ADD PARAGRAPH SPACING IN WORD 2013 MANUAL#
The paragraph is preceded by a manual column break.The paragraph is preceded by a manual page break.The paragraph is preceded by a section break.The paragraph has the "page break before" attribute set, which forces the paragraph to begin at the top of a new page.The paragraph has the "keep with next" attribute set, and that setting causes the paragraph to appear at the top of the page.The paragraph naturally falls at the top of the page based on unrestricted text flow.The paragraph is at the very beginning of the document.To understand when Word does and does not remove the space, it is helpful to understand the reasons for which a paragraph may be placed at the top of a page. If the paragraph that is formatted with extra space before it falls at the top of a page, Word will sometimes remove the extra space and sometimes it won't. This is often helpful in page layout to visually separate sections of your document from one another.

When you define the formatting for a paragraph (such as a heading), you can instruct Word to add additional space before the paragraph.
