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Widowed lines in a table
You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line
breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called "Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for Windows.) |
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:12:02 -0700, wondering
wrote: You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called "Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for Windows.) Word does have widow-and-orphan protection (in the Format Paragraph dialog on the Page & Line Breaks tab), but it doesn't operate inside a table -- I have no idea why. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...bleOn1Page.htm for some workarounds. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Pick the cell, go to Tables menu, pick Table Properties. On the row tab you
can turn off "allow cell to break across page". This will stop the cell from breaking at all. Not exactly what you want but it may be better than how it is. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:12:02 -0700, wondering wrote: You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called "Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for Windows.) Word does have widow-and-orphan protection (in the Format Paragraph dialog on the Page & Line Breaks tab), but it doesn't operate inside a table -- I have no idea why. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...bleOn1Page.htm for some workarounds. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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That will work, but it would have to be revisited any time an edit nearer
the beginning of the document might cause the page breaks to shift. This kind of special-case formatting should be done only after editing is complete or nearly so. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org EM wrote: Pick the cell, go to Tables menu, pick Table Properties. On the row tab you can turn off "allow cell to break across page". This will stop the cell from breaking at all. Not exactly what you want but it may be better than how it is. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:12:02 -0700, wondering wrote: You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called "Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for Windows.) Word does have widow-and-orphan protection (in the Format Paragraph dialog on the Page & Line Breaks tab), but it doesn't operate inside a table -- I have no idea why. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...bleOn1Page.htm for some workarounds. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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