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Word 2007: "Keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features not workin
The "keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features were working fine in my new
Word 2007 until a couple of days ago. Does anyone know of a feature that may have been activated which would make these features no longer work? |
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Word 2007: "Keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features not workin
Note that if many successive paragraphs has "Keep with next" enabled, you
will get unexpected results, because sooner or later Word must break the page. On the other hand, if only selected paragraphs have the setting, but you press Enter twice to get spacing between paragraphs, "Keep with next" will apply to those blank paragraphs, which will also make it look as if "Keep with next" is not working properly. Use Spacing Before or After (Paragraph group of the Page Layout ribbon tab) instead of blank paragraphs. "Widow and orphan control" only works correctly within paragraphs. In other words, if what is logically a *line* of text ends with a paragraph mark (because Enter was pressed), it will be treated as a single-line paragraph. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tina" wrote in message ... The "keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features were working fine in my new Word 2007 until a couple of days ago. Does anyone know of a feature that may have been activated which would make these features no longer work? |
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Word 2007: "Keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features not wo
I appreciate your input, but you have provided general knowledge below. I
feel there was a setting that got changed which made these features stop working. I reset defaults and the features are now working again. Thanks for trying to help. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Note that if many successive paragraphs has "Keep with next" enabled, you will get unexpected results, because sooner or later Word must break the page. On the other hand, if only selected paragraphs have the setting, but you press Enter twice to get spacing between paragraphs, "Keep with next" will apply to those blank paragraphs, which will also make it look as if "Keep with next" is not working properly. Use Spacing Before or After (Paragraph group of the Page Layout ribbon tab) instead of blank paragraphs. "Widow and orphan control" only works correctly within paragraphs. In other words, if what is logically a *line* of text ends with a paragraph mark (because Enter was pressed), it will be treated as a single-line paragraph. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tina" wrote in message ... The "keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features were working fine in my new Word 2007 until a couple of days ago. Does anyone know of a feature that may have been activated which would make these features no longer work? |
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Word 2007: "Keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features not wo
I'm glad you got it sorted.
Note that the "Widow/orphan control" option is usually inherited from the Normal style in Word, which means that if it was turned off for that style, many other styles would be affected too. And "Keep with next" is enabled, by default, for the built-in headings. However, I got the impression that you did have the settings enabled (for the relevant paragraphs), but that they still didn't work correctly? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tina" wrote in message ... I appreciate your input, but you have provided general knowledge below. I feel there was a setting that got changed which made these features stop working. I reset defaults and the features are now working again. Thanks for trying to help. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Note that if many successive paragraphs has "Keep with next" enabled, you will get unexpected results, because sooner or later Word must break the page. On the other hand, if only selected paragraphs have the setting, but you press Enter twice to get spacing between paragraphs, "Keep with next" will apply to those blank paragraphs, which will also make it look as if "Keep with next" is not working properly. Use Spacing Before or After (Paragraph group of the Page Layout ribbon tab) instead of blank paragraphs. "Widow and orphan control" only works correctly within paragraphs. In other words, if what is logically a *line* of text ends with a paragraph mark (because Enter was pressed), it will be treated as a single-line paragraph. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tina" wrote in message ... The "keep with next" and "Widow Lines" features were working fine in my new Word 2007 until a couple of days ago. Does anyone know of a feature that may have been activated which would make these features no longer work? |
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