how do I prevent widows and orphans in word 2007

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spring08

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.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Widow/orphan control is enabled by default in all styles in all versions of
Word.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Jay Freedman

spring08 said:
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.
Click to expand...

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?

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spring08

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.
 
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