how do I prevent widows and orphans in word 2007 spring08 12/8/2008 7:49:00 PM I want to be able to stop new pages occuring in a word document with only one line of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page.

Re: how do I prevent widows and orphans in word 2007 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 12/8/2008 9:55:39 PM Widow/orphan control is enabled by default in all styles in all versions of Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "spring08" <spring08[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:509CC527-DCBF-4187-B31E-290A4EE14CF2[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I want to be able to stop new pages occuring in a word document with only >one > line of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page. >

Re: how do I prevent widows and orphans in word 2007 "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/8/2008 9:58:56 PM spring08 wrote: [Quoted Text] > I want to be able to stop new pages occuring in a word document with > only one line of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page. That is controlled by a checkbox, "Widow/Orphan control", on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog. The default setting of the Normal paragraph style, and all styles that depend on it, is to have that option checked. Is this not the case for you? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Re: how do I prevent widows and orphans in word 2007 spring08 12/15/2008 1:16:06 PM Thanks I have managed to sort it now. For some reason, perhaps as it was originally done in another version of word, the widows and orphans didn't seem to be consistently checked. Now I've managed to find it will just keep checking it when I move onto a new section.