Insert Page breaks
When the document has more than a page worth of text, it is necessary to be attentive to how the document breaks across pages
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Select the paragraph to control page breaks
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Go to Home tab > Paragraph group > click Paragraph Dialog Box Launcher arrow
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In the Paragraph dialog box, do the following:
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Choose Line and Page Breaks tab
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Under Pagination section, select desired options
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Window/Orphan control – place at least two lines of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page
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A professional-looking document never ends a page with just one line of a new paragraph or starts a page with only the last line of a paragraph from the previous page.
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The last line of a paragraph by itself at the top of a page is known as a widow.
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The first line of a paragraph by itself at the bottom of a page is known as an orphan
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Keep with next – prevent page breaks between paragraphs in order to keep the paragraphs together on a single page
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Keep lines together – prevent page breaks in the middle of a paragraph in order to prevent from breaking into two pages
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Page break before – specify a page break before a paragraph in order to create page break before a paragraph
