In the short video below, I'm trying to place the "CIS 256" in a new line below the paragraph ending with "MLQRT". But Pages refuses, insisting that the last line in the page, just below "MLQRT", should be unused. Why ?
Why does Pages force me to waste the last line in the page
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It appears that while a Layout Break has the option to start a new page or not start a new page,
a Section Break always starts a new page. Thus, the header at the top of the page is always from the same section as the footer at the bottom of the page.
The only way I can think of is to use footnotes.
They do exhibit the asked for behavior, and you can delete the automatically-inserted number/sign in the footnote itself.
The limitations, though, are threefold:
- You have to use end of page footnotes, and since this setting is document-wide, you can't use any other footnote style.
- This fake footnote will increment the footnotes count.
- Most annoying: the insertion point that is bound to the content can't be deleted. It is good that you can define at which exact point you want your bottom block to be pushed to the next page. However, you will have to make the insertion point invisible, and there is no pretty way of doing it. I guess the “least bad” way to do it is to make the text color 100% transparent, and put the insertion point at the end of a paragraph, so that its spacing does not impact the text around.
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Best Answer
This occurs because of a pagination option called "Prevent widow & orphan lines". By default, Pages prevents the first or last line of a paragraph from appearing on the bottom or top of a page and separating it from the rest of the paragraph. These lines are called widows and orphans.
To disable this, select the text. Then, under the Format sidebar on the right side of the window, click the More tab and uncheck "Prevent widow & orphan lines."