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If you can judge a culture by how it treats widows and orphans, you can also judge a document. That’s because many graphic designers detest having one or two lines from a paragraph split between two pages.

❯❯ A single line lingering atop the page is called a widow.

❯❯ A single line lagging at the bottom of the page is called an orphan.

In both cases, the single line is part of a paragraph that couldn’t all fit on the previous or next page. Word features various remedies to cure these typographical troublemakers.

Word is preset to automatically adjust paragraphs so that you don’t unintentionally create widows and orphans in your document. To confirm that this setting is active, follow these steps:

1. Click the Home tab.

2. In the Paragraph group, click the Launcher.

The Paragraph dialog box appears.

3. Click the Line and Page Breaks tab.

4. Ensure that a check mark is set by the Widow/Orphan Control option.

5. Click OK.

Three other options in the Paragraph dialog box, on the Line and Page Breaks tab, also control paragraphs and how they flow on a page. Choose one of these options in Step 4 to create the desired effect:

Keep with Next: This setting keeps a group of paragraphs on the same page, no matter how the document is formatted.

Keep Lines Together: This option prevents a single paragraph from splitting between two pages.

Page Break Before: This setting starts a paragraph at the top of a page, regardless of how text lays out on the preceding page.

The mnemonic for widows and orphans is, “An orphan has no past; a widow has no future.” An orphan is “born” at the bottom of a page. A widow is “left behind” at the top of a page.

Never try to fix the widow/orphan problem by inserting empty paragraphs into your document! Sure, press the Enter key a few times, and the paragraph pops up on the next page. The problem is that as you edit and reformat your document, those empty paragraphs cause undue formatting woe.