Word ignores margin-top/bottom for tables

[JupiterJones]

Is it somehow possible to define a top and bottom margin for tables (Word target)? The margin-top/margin-bottom properties of the table tag seem to be ignored by Word. Is there a work-around? Without modifying the paragraphs before and after...

JJ

[LTinker68]

If you put the table inside a custom <p> or <div> tag and set the margin-top and margin-bottom values on the <p> or <div> then I think it will work.

[JupiterJones]

Unfortunately not. Divs are ignored by Word, and the surrounding p class also disappears in Word...
Any ideas?

JJ

[LTinker68]

Finally figured out a way to get the effect, but it's not that elegant. The only way I could get it to work was to create two new custom <p> classes, one I called tblBefore and the other called tblAfter. tblBefore had a margin-bottom set to 50pt and tblAfter had a margin-top set to 50pt. So in simplistic form, the page code was:

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<p class="tblBefore">Blank space or paragraph of text.</p>
<table>
...
</table>
<p class="tblAfter">Blank space or paragraph of text.</p>

That worked in Word output.

[doc_guy]

I've been using something similar to lisa's suggestion for a while, and it works. Thankfully this appears to work properly in Blaze(/Flare4) when your target is PDF. (Meaning, that in Blaze you don't need the extra code when your target is PDF. It just works like you expect. Since it works in Blaze, you can pretty much bank on it working in Flare4).