I have a style "List Bullet 2" for which the Space-Before is set to 6 points. Yet some of my paragraphs don't seem to respect this. I don't see any indication that the parameter has been overridden with a local paragraph setting. This is the kind of thing that drives people to LaTeX. What could possibly cause this?
Afternote: This really should come as no surprise. I'm stuck here late in the evening, other priorites gone by the wayside, trapped because Word 2010 (Nth generation) decides to trip me up into a face slam into the ground. What kind of Word processor flaunts with impunity something as simple as paragraph spacing? I mean, it's not as if there aren't decades of examples of products that respect the basic functionality of a word processor. How did we get into this situation where corporations force people to use a product that *so* *doesn't* work. Not all the time, justwhen you don't have the slack to deal with it.