keep text together

[HMO Fallen Angel]

I'm using Word 2003, and i need to keep the last parragraph of my text
together to the last line of the prior parragraph. I don't need the 2
parragraphs togethers, only the last line. How can I do this?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

I think you want to enable "widow/orphan control" in Format | Paragraph
| Line and Page Breaks tab. Quoting from Word help, this option
"Prevents Word from printing the last line of a paragraph by itself at
the top of a page (widow) or the first line of a paragraph by itself at
the bottom of a page (orphan)."

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I don't think that will quite do it... not if he wants to make sure that the
last line of paragraph A stays with paragraph B. Orphan/Widow control will
prevent a single line of a paragraph from appearing at the top or bottom of
a page by itself. But, it doesn't seem to do what HMO wants. Paragraph A's
last line won't necessarily appear on the same page at Paragraph B.

The only ways I can see to get the behavior HMO wants are by manual
intervention, just before printing. One way is to insert a hard page break
right before the last line of paragraph A. I haven't yet discovered an
automatic way to do it.

This is a classic case where the user needs a conditional page break, but
alas, it's not a feature that Word has.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
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[HMO Fallen Angel]

You are right, the widow/orphan control doesn't do that.
I have tried everything but nothing works, i was trying to find something
beside 'manual intervention' for this but, oh well, if there is no any other
option.
Thanks a lot for your help