turn off widows and orphans in word 2010

Such apparent impairments as fuzzy type, incomplete letters, and blocks of type that appear lighter or darker than the surrounding text may be due to poor photocopying. Codified in, e.g., the Chicago Manual of Styleģ.11 Overall appearance Each page or, better, each pair of facing pages should be checked for length (see 3.12), vertical spacing, position of running heads and page numbers, and so forth. Got any better authority for these (to me, arbitrary and silly) 'rules'? - Hoary ( talk) 07:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Reply Those of us who do typsetting for a living actually do follow this 'arbitrary and silly rule'. The author doesn't give any reasoning for this, or even any appeal to authority. Instead, it flatly says A manuscript should have no widows or orphans. This does not claim that writing guides, plural, say any such thing. The assertion that writing guides, plural - and why writing, and not page composition or typography guides? - generally suggest this is sourced to a single handout by a single teacher. Writing guides generally suggest that a manuscript should have no widows and orphans, page 6 RaphaelFreeman 11:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC) Reply It is only when paragraphs are leaded, and when there is an empty space above the single last line, that they become obnoxious.' It would seem to me, however, that avoiding it can be no more than wishful thinking. In fact Jan Tschichold states in the Form of the Book page 136, 'Some people spurn the first line of a new paragraph at the bottom of a page. So in the wiki article it is incorrect to say that orphans should be suppressed. (I would add that the exception is the typesetting of Hebrew bibles where widows are acceptable for traditional reasons) It is the custom – in most, if not in all, the world’s typographic cultures – to give them one additional line for company.' They have a past but not a future, and they look foreshortened and forlorn. The stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called widows. They have no past, but they do have a future, and they need not trouble the typographer. Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of a page are known as orphans.

According to Robert Bringhurst’s, Elements of Typographic style, page 43 and I quote 'Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraph, There seems to be much confusion all round.

Turn off widows and orphans in word 2010