Widowed lines in a table

[wondering]

You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line
breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to
go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called
"Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for
Windows.)

 

[Jay Freedman]

You have a long paragraph in a cell in a table and only the very last line
breaks and goes onto the next page. How do you get, say, the last 3 lines to
go over to the next page? (In wordperfect, there was a great feature called
"Block Protect" which would do this, but there's no such feature in Word for
Windows.)

Word does have widow-and-orphan protection (in the Format > Paragraph
dialog on the Page & Line Breaks tab), but it doesn't operate inside a
table -- I have no idea why.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/KeepTableOn1Page.htm for
some workarounds.

 

[EM]

Pick the cell, go to Tables menu, pick Table Properties. On the row tab you
can turn off "allow cell to break across page". This will stop the cell from
breaking at all. Not exactly what you want but it may be better than how it
is.

 

[Jay Freedman]

That will work, but it would have to be revisited any time an edit nearer
the beginning of the document might cause the page breaks to shift. This
kind of special-case formatting should be done only after editing is
complete or nearly so.