Word 2016 For Professionals For Dummies. Dan Gookin

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      The Paragraph dialog box appears.

      3. Click the Line and Page Breaks tab.

      4. Ensure that a check mark is set by the Widow/Orphan Control option.

      5. Click OK.

      Three other options in the Paragraph dialog box, on the Line and Page Breaks tab, also control paragraphs and how they flow on a page. Choose one of these options in Step 4 to create the desired effect:

      The mnemonic for widows and orphans is, “An orphan has no past; a widow has no future.” An orphan is “born” at the bottom of a page. A widow is “left behind” at the top of a page.

Chapter 3

      Tabs and Lists

      Tabs and lists are directly related, though they are separate features in Word. The goal of these features is to automate some routine formatting chores. The end result is that you have a list of items or an arrangement of text that doesn’t look like crap. In fact, one of the earmarks of amateur Word users is when they use a series of spaces to line up text instead of using a tab stop. That’s understandable because the process of using tabs, as well as applying list formatting, isn’t the easiest thing to understand in Word.

      The Whole Tab Thing

      Word’s system for setting tab stops and using tabs is damn confusing. That’s because the notion of tabs involves two separate items: the tab character and the tab stop. The tab character is generated when you mash the Tab key. The character’s width is variable, determined by the next tab stop on the line.

      A tab stop is a gizmo that sits at a specific horizontal position in a paragraph. It sets the width of a tab character typed at a position before the tab stop. The tab character becomes a wide space that moves text over the tab stop.

      The reason the tab stop concept is difficult to understand is that almost every character you type in a document has a given width. Most people assume that the tab works just like those other characters – for instance, that the tab character is ½-inch wide. Instead, the tab character is as wide as the distance between the insertion pointer’s position and the location of the next tab stop.

      Figure 3-1 illustrates the basic tab-stop / tab-character concept. In the figure, after the word Tab, the Tab key is pressed. A variable-size character is inserted, extending to the next tab stop.