![]() ![]() When I receive a document from a client, it generally has spaces between paragraphs of Normal text. These settings ensure that your headings will not split across two pages and, where necessary, they will automatically move to the next page, to stay with the text that follows them. You can repeat this process for Heading 2, Heading 3 and so on. Now all your text that is styled as Heading 1 will have those settings. From the list that appears, select ‘Update Heading 1 to Match Selection’: Now, with your cursor still in the Heading 1 text that you have modified, right click on Heading 1.Under the ‘Line and Page Breaks’ tab, ensure that the first three boxes are ticked: On the Home tab, click on the Paragraph Settings button at the bottom right-hand side of the Paragraph box.In your document, put your cursor in some text and apply the style ‘Heading 1′.Here is one way to set up a robust and reliable Heading 1 in Word: setting the styles to have ‘Keep with next’ and ‘Keep lines together’.using styles for the headings (if you’re not sure how to do this, see my blog post Three reasons to use styles in MS Word ).When you format a document, you want any headings that continue for several lines to appear on a single page, and all headings to stay with at least a couple of lines of the text that follows them. ![]() Reliable headings using Microsoft Word styles This post explains how to create formatting that is robust and will withstand changes to the text. Have you ever formatted a document in MS Word, only for the layout to fall apart when changes are made to the text? For example, headings may suddenly be split over two pages or be separated from the text that follows them, or a page may start with a blank line. Using ‘keep with next’ and ‘widow/orphan control’
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