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Keeping text together across page breaks

Keeping text together across page breaks - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Keeping text together across page breaks

As you well know, when you're entering content onto the page here in Microsoft Word, eventually you will run out of space, but Word creates a new page for you, and you can continue typing, or adding your content on the next page. But what happens when the page break happens in the middle of a paragraph? All of a sudden you have part of the paragraph at the bottom of one page, and the rest at the top of the next page. Well, there is a feature that allows you to keep paragraphs together; intact. There is also feature that will make sure that you never see a widow, or an orphan. Widow and orphan control is a single line from a paragraph left on its own, either at the bottom of the page, or at the top of the page. So let's take a look at those options now, as we continue working with are No Obstacles HR document. If you've jumped to this lesson, you can get caught up with us by going to the Chapter4 folder, and opening up No Obstacles HR3. We're going to go to page 7. Let's use our…

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