Word ranks a table style's w:pPr under the paragraph style, so a style zeroing
w:after does not take the space after off a Normal that declares one — probed
against soffice, which keeps 8pt there while its w:line=240 still beats
docDefaults' 276. Read as an override, every cell paragraph lost its spacing.
Spacing in a cell now layers docDefaults ← table style ← the paragraph's own
chain (baked in, since a cell carries no style name) ← direct w:pPr.
Corpus 934 → 900; the fixture it was measured on 66 → 34, its page count exact
for the first time (50 against 50, from 44).
Steffen Becker
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