When the entire document is formatted as "Keep with next," then the snake
keeps chasing its tail throughout and Word has to insert page breaks
arbitrarily. When you remove this formatting from a single paragraph, then
of course all the text that is still chasing itself moves to the next page
(and Word heaves a sigh of relief).
I suspect that what you are doing is creating an outline using heading
styles. There's nothing wrong with this except that all heading styles are
formatted as "Keep with next." Remove this formatting for Heading 3 and
above, say, and your document will be much better behaved.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"gregc" wrote in message
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Stefan, thank you fro the help.
Yes the "blank line" was created by pressing Enter twice and yes "Keep
with
next" is checked for the whole document. If I uncheck "Keep with next"
the
orphan exists on a page all by itself. I tried eliminating the blank line
and adding Spacing Before but the paragraph but that created a double
blank
line before the paragraph.
Unless I'm missing something, the widow and orphan control doesn't always
work automatically. In those instances that it doesn't work, the widow or
orphan can be manually eliminated but that, in this instance, created
other
widows and orphans on following pages of the document. The following
widows
and orphans then have to be manually eliminated. It gets a bit tedious,
but
it can be done manually.
If there is an automatic way to eliminate all widows and orphans, I would
like to know it.
Thanks again for the help.
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Greg
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Was the "blank line" created by pressing Enter twice? If so, "Keep with
next" applies to the blank line, which is in fact a blank paragraph. You
can
apply "Keep with next" to both of the two paragraphs, but a better
solution
is to stop pressing Enter twice and instead add some Spacing Before to
the
relevant paragraph (style).
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"gregc" wrote in message
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We have documents that have the last line of a paragraph appearing on a
succeeding page. This is followed a blank line and then the next
paragraph.
Thanks again for the help.
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Greg
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Can you please further define "not working"?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"gregc" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have the box checked for widow and orphan control but it is not
working.
Several secretaries and paralegals have tried it and they can't get
it
to
work either. I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
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Greg