Microsoft Word 2003 Paragraph Formatting

Prevent Page Breaks Inside Paragraphs

Summary: Keep paragraphs in Microsoft Word 2003 documents from splitting to separate pages.

Your Microsoft Word 2003 document may include a small paragraph, four or five lines long, that is split onto separate pages. This may not "look right" to you. Or, you may be working on a technical paper, containing a very complex paragraph describing how to perform a task. If this paragraph is split by a page break, the documentation may be confusing. In either of these cases, Word's default splitting of large paragraphs into separate pages may not appeal to you.

You can change this option, either on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, or you can select the entire document for modification.

1. Either right-click in a paragraph, or select a group of paragraphs and then press the right mouse button.

2. Choose "Paragraph" from the popup menu.

3. When the "Paragraph" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, select "Line and Page Breaks".

4. Check "Keep lines together".

5. Press "OK" to close the dialog box.

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Last Modified on: July 13, 2008, at 12:04 A.M. EDT

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