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John Liungman
 
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Default Keep with next, Widow/orphan, etc all fail

Thanks Stefan, but nope, that´s not is. I´m meticulous about avoiding extra
line breaks. Other suggestions?

Regards, John

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Are you pressing Enter twice to create spacing around paragraphs? If
so, that's the cause of the problem, because each time you press
Enter, you are in fact creating an additional paragraph. "Keep with
next" applies to these empty paragraphs, and then it seems as if it
doesn't work. Remove the empty paragraphs and then add some Spacing
Before to text (or preferably to the style definitions, as
appropriate).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"John Liungman" wrote in message
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I am working on a 40 page document. Formatting is done consistently

through
paragraph formats. I use no hard page breaks, only "section breaks

to odd
page" at start of new chapters.

Midway through this work headings started appearing at the bottom of

pages
instead of keeping with following paragraph, widows and orphans

turned up in
body text, and page breaks appeared in paragraphs, despite the fact

that my
paragraph style definitons explicitly say differently. All in all,

it seems
as if Word has completely disabled all the text flow options.

This happens with all kinds of styles: heading, bullets, body text.

It is possible that the problem first appeared when I reduced the

page size
substantially from A4 to roughly A5. I am aware that this can be

interpreted
as a collision of rules (ie Keep with next, etc). This is not so

however.
Paragraphs are generally short and Word has plenty of chances to get

things
right.

I have tried all kinds of workarounds, such as redefining my

paragraphs,
rechecking the relevent boxes (widow/orphan, etc), reconnecting with

my
template file, etc. Nothing seems to work.

Ideas?