“ Keep with next” also differs from “Keep lines together.” Whereas “Keep lines together” refers to the lines of a single paragraph, “Keep with next” refers to two successive paragraphs. Instead, it moves the paragraph down so that either (1) the last two lines of the paragraph appear at the top of the following page or (2) the entire paragraph begins on a new page. With “Widow/Orphan Control” checked (enabled), Word will allow paragraphs to split across pages, but won’t permit a single line of a paragraph to dangle by itself at the top or bottom of a page.
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Note that this choice is different from Widow/Orphan Control. When the option is checked (enabled), if the whole paragraph won’t fit at the bottom of one page, Word bumps it to the next page. In other words, you use this setting to avoid splitting a paragraph across pages. Thus, “ Keep lines together” tells Word to maintain the entire paragraph-all of its lines-as one unit on a single page. That means that each option applies to an entire paragraph. It is worth remembering that these formatting options are part of the Paragraph dialog box. In this post, I briefly explain the four main options on the Line and Page Breaks tab: “Widow/Orphan Control,” “Keep with next,” “Keep lines together,” and “Page break before.”
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Word’s Paragraph dialog box consists of two tabs: (1) Indents and Spacing (by default, this tab is at the forefront of the dialog) and (2) Line and Page Breaks.