February 2, 2009

Word 2007: Page breaks and more

In Word 2007, you can easily manage where lines and pages break within your document. Here’s how:

On the Home ribbon (tab), find the Paragraph section, and click the arrow in the bottom right corner to go to the Paragraph dialogue box. There you’ll find a tab called “Line and Page Break” and the top section is called Pagination. You can check these boxes:

Widow/Orphan control tells Word not to leave (orphan) the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a page or leave (widow) the last line of a paragraph at the top of a new page. Instead, when this box is checked Word avoids this situation by moving the a solitary first line of a paragraph to the next page or solves a solitary last line by also moving the line above it.
Keep with next tells Word not to separate the paragraph you select from the one immediately following it.
Keep lines together tells Word not to insert a page break anywhere within a selected paragraph.
Page break before tells Word to insert a page break before the paragraph you select.

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