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For some types of documents you may not want your paragraphs to smoothly flow from one page to the next. Instead, you may want to make sure that any given paragraph appears all on one page or another. I require this type of formatting quite often in letters, legal documents, and proposals.
Word includes a formatting feature that allows you to ensure that paragraphs stay together without a page break in the middle of them. You apply this format characteristic by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box.
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2018-03-27 22:07:04
Donna
Can you help with this question?????? I have a 16 page Word doc (365 for Mac). I added four lines to one page, and it flowed the bottom four lines to a page of its own, instead of reflowing the entire document. How can I fix this?
2016-10-05 23:49:13
John Licharson
My document is made up of these multi line text blocks, each of which I want to keep intact on the same page
I have done this for all of the many blocks of several lines of text.
However, when I insert a new block of text or couple of lines between any of these different blocks, the - presumably - protected blocks still are split up over auto page breaks.
I can do this easily in Wordperfect: Each protected block automatically goes to the next page when there is not enough room for it on the page where it is located.
What is up? Or what an I likely to have done wrong
2014-10-12 23:10:37
Aaron
Note that for tables, you can keep rows together by selecting that property in the Table Properties dialogue (right-click on the table).
2014-09-30 06:15:31
I'm using the current version of word, up from a decade old version. Back then when enter was hit, the new paragraph retained the properties of the previous paragraph (color, numbers, font, ...). Now the new paragraph starts at the left margin. Can I change a setting to revert to the old automatic paragraph setting based on the setting before enter was hit?
2012-11-10 14:36:40
Sharon
I have Windows 7. In many ways I find I miss some of the features of the older Windows, one of these is the Widow & Orphan feature. Another is "Select All" wherein I can hit that key and all of the document is hi lighted so that I can do as I wish wish all of the document.
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