How can I have paragraph spacing for normal paragraphs, but no paragraph spacing within tables?

I configured my "Normal" paragraph style to have 10pt spacing before and after.

Within word tables, however, I would like no (0pt) spacing before and after paragraphs.

The closest I came was by checking the table style paragraph setting called "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style".

This only works to my satisfaction when I have a normal paragraph before a table. If the table comes immediately after a heading, the first cell still has this annoying spacing.

I know I could manually mark the cells of the offending table and override the paragraph spacing, but shouldn't this be achievable with some pretty straightforward style configuration?

Solution 1:

After a lot of trial and error I have found a configuration that so far seems to work pretty well:

Standard style: 10pt before, 10pt after

Table style: 'Auto' before, 'Auto' after

And the result:

Solution 2:

Assuming you haven't tried this already, consider creating a separate paragraph style for table Paragraphs. Apply it to the first one, others should follow, or apply globally to the table.