Empty line setting for styles

Hi everyone. Just joined. I’ve just started writing a novel and needs some help regarding styles.

I have created a style for smartphone messages. The problem is I want to set it so that when I use this style it inserts an empty line before and after the paragraph but cannot find a way to do it.

Any help would be great.

Abe

There isn’t anything about styles that would insert literal lines when you use them—however you might be referring to paragraph spacing; you can see a space but you can’t move the cursor into it or delete it separately?

If so, use the Format ▸ Paragraph ▸ Line and Paragraph Spacing… command from within the styled line. Once you remove the before/after para spacing (or other line-height settings that might be producing this effect), you can redefine the style to remove them globally and from all future use.