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Widow/orphan control not working
I'm using Word 2003 on Windows XP. For some time, widow/orphan control has
not been working in documents based on our corporate templates. If text (and styles) is copied from a document based on one of these templates into a document based on Normal.dot, then the text behaves as it should, i.e., widow/orphan works as expected. When I previously posted this question a few months ago, it was suggested that the issue might be having too many paragraphs formatted "keep with next." That is not the case as this happens with just a page or two of text with no special paragraph formatting. However, I'm now fairly sure that the problem is being caused by a frame in the footer. The footers of all these templates are set up in such a way that there is some text on the left and on the right there is a frame containing the company logo and some additional text (copyright notice, page number and date). The frame appears to be aligned with the right margin and the top of the header area. However, if the frame is deleted, the text behaves itself, i.e., widow/orphan works. Since I don't own the templates, it's not an option for me to revise all of them by removing the frames in the footer. But is there something in the frame formatting that could be changed so it doesn't interfere with the text on the page? The frame is formatted as follows: 2.5 inches high, 1.18 inches wide, horizontal position right relative to margin, distance from text 0.13 inches, vertical position 9.83 inches relative to margin, distance from text 0 inches. Move with text and lock anchor are unchecked. Document margins set to one inch on all sides and paper size is US letter. My workaround to date has been to used Keep Lines Together to prevent ugly paragraph breaks, but this is time-consuming in long documents and looks bad in long paragraphs.Any suggestions please. |
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