Shift + enter option?

[Beth Agnew]

Another reason to avoid extraneous new paragraph commands is that 
sometimes they'll have a style such as Heading that will be picked up 
when your Table of Contents is generated, giving you a blank line with a 
page number in the TOC. And for us old fogies, I'd like to point out 
that Geoff said "carriage returns". LOL

Geoff Hart wrote:
> Michelle Anderson wondered (on behalf of an anonymous poster): <<I'm 
> wondering if anyone has heard about using the "shift + enter" option 
> to reduce the number of paragraph marks appearing in a document. I can 
> find all kinds of information telling me that I shouldn't have 
> paragraph marks with no attached text, but nothing that tells me what 
> happens if I do have them.>>
>
> Shift + Enter is not the solution any more than Enter is. The reason 
> you shouldn't insert empty paragraph markers is twofold: it's easier 
> and more efficient to adjust paragraph spacing using the paragraph 
> style's settings (space after or space before), and a paragraph should 
> serve a functional role defined based on its content, not simply a 
> spacing role.
>
> The layout-related problem with using extra carriage returns to create 
> spacing is that the software then treats this the same way it treats 
> any paragraph, and reserves a line of blank space whether you want one 
> or not; if that line falls at the start or end of the page, as often 
> happens after several rounds of revision, you end up with unwanted 
> empty space that must be removed manually after each round of 
> revision. In contrast, defining this blank space in the paragraph 
> style lets the software automatically decide whether it's necessary to 
> display the space or (at the bottom of a page, for instance) whether 
> it can not display it.