
Ever wonder what that "Widow/Orphan control" option is in Word (it is turned on by default)? According to The Chicago Manual of Style:
Widow
Orphans are moved to the next page with the rest of the paragraph. For widows, lines are moved from the bottom of one page to the top of the next.
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Widow
- A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
- A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column.
- A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.
Orphans are moved to the next page with the rest of the paragraph. For widows, lines are moved from the bottom of one page to the top of the next.
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