Document Production Tip of the Day

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

• A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
  

Orphan

• 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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