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Important: The following procedures assume that you are in print layout view. If you are not in print layout view, on the View menu, click Print Layout. Do any of the following: Keep lines together You can keep all lines of a paragraph together on a page or in a column so that the paragraph is not split between two pages.
Keep paragraphs together You can keep paragraphs together, such as a heading and the next paragraph, on a page or in a column.
Always force a page break before a paragraph If you want a certain paragraph in your document always to appear at the top of a page, set a page break to occur before the paragraph.
Control widow and orphan lines By default, Word prevents the last line of a paragraph from appearing at the top or bottom of a page.
Prevent a table row from breaking across a page
Insert a manual line break A manual line break ends the current line and continues the text on the next line. Some paragraph styles include extra space before each paragraph. To omit this extra space between short lines of text, such as those in an address block or a poem, insert a manual line break after each line instead of pressing RETURN .
Insert a manual page break Word inserts automatic page breaks based on how your document is set up. However, you can manually insert a page break in a specific location.
Delete a manual page break
In typography, you want to avoid single words as the last line of a paragraph and single lines of text at the beginning or end of a column or page. Why? A lonely single word at the end of a paragraph creates a visual interruption in the flow that breaks the reader’s focus. This is called a “runt”. This break is caused by the unintended white space that calls more attention than necessary to the single word. Similarly, a line or word of text that jumps to the next page/column or starts a page/column should be avoided for the same reason. This would be called an “orphan” or “widow”. As graphic designers, we adjust the space between words and/or letters to resolve these typographic problems as the final step in the design process. This is important no matter if the project is a website design, PowerPoint presentation, research report, brochure design, an invitation or any other design that includes text. So now to the definition and naming of these little nitpicks. There seem to be different opinions on what is called an orphan and a widow. The Chicago Manual of Style and Robert Bringhurst in the Elements of Typographic Style agree: Widow: A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. (They have a past but no future.) Orphan: A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. (They have no past but a future.) Runt: Single, short word at the end of a paragraph.
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