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Old August 25th, 2006, 11:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Widowed line in a table

Nope, once you have allowed the row to break, you've given Word carte
blanche. Neither "Widow/orphan control" nor "Keep lines together" has any
effect in a table cell, and "Keep with next" operates only between rows.

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"chadwilliams" wrote in message
...
I have a fully justified paragraph in a cell. The last line of that
paragraph now sits alone at the top of the next page. This is called a
widowed line and it's unprofessional looking. If I do a "keep together",

the
whole paragraph goes onto the next page which I don't want. I only want

the
last two lines of the paragraph to go onto the top of the next page. (In
Wordperfect, you would use a "block protect" and it would keep the last 2
lines together. Word doesn't have that feature.) If I use a return to

break
the paragraph so that the last 2 lines are on the next page, then that

last
line won't be fully justified (and I will have turned that paragraph into

2
paragraphs, which I don't want).

So how can I make sure there are no widowed lines in a table?