Thanks Suzanne for the great tip on the Compatibility Option. Now I can get
the last two lines onto the next page (so I won't have the widowed line)
while maintaining full justification of the line ending with the
shift+return. The only problem now is that if, at a later date, due to
editing the wordflow changes, then that particular paragraph will need to be
constantly checked. But from what you're telling me, I have no other choice
unless I leave the widowed line. This problem doesn't exist in Wordperfect
because you can "block protect" the last 2 lines in a paragraph in a table.
Hopefully, Word can make that happen too, or in the least, have the widowed
line option work in tables.

Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The line break justifies the line (unless you have the Compatibility Option
"Don't expand characters spaces on a line ending Shift-Return" checked). The
paragraph break breaks to a new paragraph. In this case you could probably
accomplish the same thing with two line breaks (to give you an extra blank
line to push the following line of text to the next page). In other words,
what you're doing is converting

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nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut
wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit
lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

to

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nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut

wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit
lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

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"chadwilliams" wrote in message
...
I can't figure out how to insert a line break (shift+enter) PLUS a
paragraph
break and yet keep that line fully justified. Can you explain how I can
do
this please? Thank you.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can prevent the row from breaking and keep the whole paragraph
together
(note that "Keep lines together" will *not* do this). You could insert a
line break *and* a paragraph break, which would justify your last line,
but
this can cause problems if the table reflows and you end up with a
line's
space in the middle of your paragraph. It is not at all satisfactory,
but
that's the way it is with current versions of Word, unfortunately.

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"chadwilliams" wrote in message
...
Sorry... so are you telling me that there is nothing I can do but
leave
that
widowed line where it is????

Do you know of any "work-arounds"??


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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?