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Keep words on the same line, paragraphs on the same page, and control widow and orphan lines.
Widow/Orphan control Widows and orphans are single lines of text in a paragraph that print at the top or bottom of a text box or column. To prevent widows and orphans by always having at least two lines of text at the top or bottom of a text box, select the Widow/Orphan control check box.
Select the paragraphs in which you want to control widows and orphans. On the Home tab in Word, or on the FORMAT TEXT tab in an Outlook email, select the Paragraph Dialog Box launcher . Select the Line and Page Breaks tab. Under Pagination, select Widow/Orphan control. Select OK.
By default, Word prevents the last line of a paragraph from appearing at the top or bottom of a page. Select the paragraphs in which you want to control widow and orphan. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab. Select the Widow/Orphan control check box.
If you'd like to customize the alignment, indentation, line spacing, tab stop positions and leaders, and line and paragraph breaks within selected paragraphs, you can use the Format Paragraph dialog box in Publisher.
To switch voice typing languages, you'll need to change the input language you use. Here's how: Select the language switcher in the corner of your taskbar. Press the language switcher in the bottom right of the touch keyboard.
Use page breaks to control where a page ends and where a new page begins. Insert a page break. Place the cursor where you want to start a new page. Select Insert > Page Break. Change page break settings. Select Layout. In the Paragraph group, select the small arrow.
Word for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 Word 2021 More... You can change the spacing between characters of text for selected text or for particular characters. In addition, you can stretch or compress an entire paragraph to make it fit and look the way that you want it to.
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