Too bad. It looks like I'll have to do it manually.
Thanks for the info. I even tried changing my signature
style for a 24 pt spacing before (and don't add space
between paragraphs of the same style) hoping it would
recognize the entire style as one paragraph, but no such
luck. Thanks any way.

-----Original Message-----
You can directly format that last paragraph before the
signature block
as Keep With Next and Word will push a couple of lines
of it to the page
with the signature block. Note that Word defines a
paragraph as
anything that ends with a paragraph mark, i.e., any
place you have
pressed Enter. So if you have used returns to insert
spacing between
the last paragraph of the document and the signature
block, Keep With
Next will instruct Word to keep your paragraph on the
same page as the
blank line below it, not on the same page as the
signature block.


"CJH" wrote in
news:2dd9101c46a9a
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Thanks so much for your help. So far, so good. In
keeping with this theme though, I find the document
will
still put a page break between the last line of the
paragraph and the signature block style. Is there way
to
make sure that 2 lines of text stay with the rest of
the
signature block, including the empty space before the
signature line?

-----Original Message-----
For the first question, set Keep with next on the
Heading style and
Widow/orphan control on the style used for body text.
For the second question, the Widow/orphan control
setting can be used to
keep at least two lines of a paragraph together on the
next page, and Keep
with next will keep it with the signature block. Keep
lines together will
force the whole paragraph to move to the next page if
any part of it won't
fit on the previous page, so that is not what you want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in
message
. ..
I work with large documents with headings and
signature
blocks. I want the headings to stay on the same page
with at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
and I want the signature block to be on the same page
with at least 2 lines from the preceding paragraph.
I'm using a style for the headings. How do I tell
that
style to move the heading to the next page if it
can't
fit at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
at the bottom of the page?
Also, when I try to use Format Paragraph Line and
Page
Breaks Keep With Next or Keep Lines Together for the
signature block problem, it moves the entire
paragraph
instead of just the last 2 lines, to the next page.
Obviously, I'm missing something.

Your help is appreciated.

CJH


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