Go to the Line and Page Breaks tab and see if Keep with next and/or Keep lines. And if either body text or footnote text is formatted as Keep lines together (which prevents Word from breaking a paragraph at. Paragraph setting for forcing one or more rows to remain with the following row or paragraph: Select the entire table, go to the Home tab, and click the tiny little arrow icon in the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group to open the Paragraph dialog box. On screen, it will look like your landscape headers and footers are in the left and right margins of the page but dont worry, they will print out in the same. The whole paragraph moves to the next page. In pages with long footnotes, widow/orphan control in the footnotes may add to the problem if the footnote reference falls so close to the bottom of the page that the footnote must be continued on the next page. Place the insertion point where you want the page number to appear. On the Paragraph dialog box, click the “Line and Page Breaks” tab and then check the “Keep lines together” box in the Pagination section. To keep the lines of a paragraph together, put the cursor in the paragraph and click the “Paragraph Settings” dialog button in the lower-right corner of the Paragraph section on the Home tab. We’re going to force this entire paragraph to stay together and move to the next page. Using the “Keep Lines Together” setting, however, preserves all your page breaks and any paragraphs you don’t want split between two pages are kept together on one page.įor example, the paragraph in the image below is split, the last two lines being moved to the next page.
Why not just insert a manual page break before the paragraph? As you edit the document, other page break locations will change, and that manual page break may cause some strange pagination.
However, what if you want to keep a certain paragraph together and not split the paragraphs between two pages? There’s a simple fix for this. If you are, and if youre pasting content from another source, then youre carrying along the code from that source, which may create problems in Docs. Anyone trying to hide the footnotes in a document will strike it.
While looking into Footnotes and Endnotes in Word for we came upon a strange bug. When you type in Word, paragraphs flow smoothly from one page to the next, and page breaks are automatically inserted when needed. Hiding footnotes in Word triggers an annoying bug that’s been there for at least ten years.