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Keep text together across page breaks

Keep text together across page breaks

- Have you ever been reading a document and you reach the end of a page and there's a single line of text all by itself, and you need to go to the next page to see the rest of that paragraph? Can be a little distracting, maybe not visually-appealing to the eye. Same thing can happen where a line of text gets stranded at the top of a page, and the rest of the paragraph is on the previous page. These are known as widows and orphans. We want to avoid those in our documents, so we're going to explore settings to help keep paragraph texts together as we continue working with our Red30 conference document, 04, 03 if you're catching up. As we scroll to the bottom of page one, we've been doing things like changing margins, line spacing, paragraph spacing. All of that affects the length of our document, and at the bottom of page one you can see there's not enough room for the entire paragraph. The rest of it appears at the…

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