Keep Lines Together in Word – How to Prevent Heading Cut Off

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I recently found out about the 'keep lines together' option in Word, and it has saved me vast amounts of the worst kind of proofing. What remains are odd headings here and there in lengthy documents where the subsequent paragraph was kept together, but pushed to the next page, leaving an orphan heading.

How do I get the heading to get folded into the push of the paragraph to the next page? Each heading is linked to a table of contents and has all of the attendant markup.

Also, in instances where there is a leading line saying something like,

Please go to this link for more information:

http:\\www.moreinformation.com

How do I keep these together?

Best Answer

How do I get the heading to [go] to the next page [with the subsequent paragraph]?

The only thing I can suggest is to manually unset the ‘Keep lines together’ option on all paragraphs that immediately follow a heading.  (It may be possible to automate that with VBA.)

How do I keep these together?

A couple of possibilities.  One:

Please go to this link for more information:Enter
http://www.moreinformation.comEnter

and set the ‘Keep with next’ property on the first paragraph.

Or:

Please go to this link for more information:Shift+Enter
Shift+Enter

http://www.moreinformation.comEnter

thus creating a single paragraph that is three lines long (with the second line being blank).

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