Uncheck it! I hope this helps and saves a little bit of your sanity while fighting with your manuscript formatting. You'll see a box, automatically checked called the Widow/Orphan control. In the 2007 version of Word I found the widow/orphan check box under the page layout tab, and Line and Page breaks. It's just that I have never used an older version of Word than Word 97, so I've had no experience with those earlier versions
TURN OFF WIDOW ORPHAN CONTROL IN PAGES FOR MAC HOW TO
Display the Line and Page Breaks tab Line and Page Breaks | Pagination | Widow/Orphan controlThis video shows how to control widow and orphan lines on a paragraph in MS Word 2019 To clarify, I'm not saying that widow/orphan control was customizable before Word 97 either. Choose the Paragraph option from the Format menu. Clear the option that says Widow/Orphan control and click OK twice To control widows and orphans in your documents, follow these steps: Put the insertion point in the paragraph that has either the widow or orphan text.
In the dialog box, click Format | Paragraph and go to the Line and Page Breaks tab. Next to the style name, click the Modify button. If there is a check mark in the box, the widow/orphan control is turned on and Word will make sure there are no single lines separated from their paragraphs Press Ctrl+Shift+S to display the Apply Styles pane. Look for Widow/Orphan Control at the top, under Pagination. A dangling line at the top of the next page will cause a bigger blank gap as the entire paragraph may move to the next page.Home Word widow/orphan control not workingĬlick on the Line and Page Breaks tab. With 3 or 4 the blank space will be more variable in size than with 2, where it will vary as not every page break splits a paragraph and not every split paragraph has too small a widow or orphan.
Sometimes there may runs of pages where the paragraphs happen to end at the bottom of a page, so even with 3 you'd not get the big block of white space. If you have poor short term memory and/or find reading difficult, you might even want 3 or 4 rather than 2 and not 1, which is really the do nothing setting. So material on paper may set a minimum of two isolated lines (or even three), thus the default in kobo and many wordprocessors of two, which is thus the minimum number of widowed or orphaned lines. They might check to see (on paper) if they flipped two pages, or have to turn back. The reason to have white space is that if there is an isolated one line (or maybe two) some people can lose the context when they flip the page. These are the names of the two parts no matter if it's a Brontë 50 line paragraph split into two equal parts. Just to clarify, ANY paragraph split across a page boundary has a Widow and an Orphan. If you never have blank space, then some paragraphs will have 1 line widows or orphans. If you have variable blank space at the bottom of a page you are avoiding (removing) small widows & orphans. That's why a setting of 0 has no meaning and is interpreted as 1.Ĭhanging the margins, font face, font size and line spacing only changes where paragraphs are broken across a page boundary.
It means the bottom of the page can have as few as 1 lines of the next paragraph, or the top of the page can have as few as 1 line from the previous paragraph, so there is no "wasted space". So with 1 you have the maximum occurrence of a widow or orphan. Setting it to 2 increases likelihood of blank space due to moving part of a paragraph to the top of the next page to avoid an isolated line of the start or end of a paragraph. Setting it to 1 removes blank space caused by removal of widows and orphans. It doesn't seem to work why on my 2011 Kindle and anyway surely widows and orphans can't be completely gone with adjustable text size?
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