I've run into this several times and couldn't find anything in Google that helped (I know it's not a line break or hidden table!!). It happens when I'm using Styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc). I'm not sure what's going on, but here's how I fixed it:.
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Highlight or just click in the text. Right click. Select 'Paragraph'. Go to 'Line and Page Breaks' tab.
Numbers Won't Restart Numbering. Well, you can try all you want, but sometimes Restart Numbering is grayed out! To fix it, just select the previous number's paragraph.the whole thing, including the paragraph return at the end. Hit the Format Painter, then select the 'bad' paragraph, including the paragraph return at the end. We’ll first spend some time discussing paragraph controls, such as justification, line spacing, and we’ll conclude the lesson with how to control and format various list and list styles in Word 2013. You can control paragraph behavior and appearance using the “Paragraph” tab.
Check 'Keep with next'. OK What exactly does that do? I'm not sure, but it solved the problem for me, so I figured I'd share here since this seemed to be one of the top hits in Google. The default in the resume template I used was 'keep with next.' I copied the column to a new document and converted it from table to text. Then I could select the entire thing and turn off widow and orphan control. I found it difficult to do it while still in the table, because I could pull up the Paragraph settings only randomly, not consistently.
Thanks to Rick for mentioning that nasty 'Keep with next' setting.;-) FOLLOW UP: Actually, the above described technique helped, but I still get two pages with two lines at the bottom. Table is formatted to put all text at the top.
They are consecutive pages so it isn't a folio verso thing. I copied the misbehaving likes to Notepad to strip hidden formatting, put them back, and they jumped to the bottom of their respective pages.
2ND FOLLOW UP: Word 2013 is either buggy or there is a demon in the online template I chose. I solved the last remaining problems by setting a specific (exactly, not at least) row height for each row and set each to allow breaking across pages. On the second page, the table rows went out of bounds, as if I'd set different R and L page margins. Broke it into a second table to see if that would help. Sometimes I could resize the table to be within bounds, and then it would bounce back out. I discovered I could align either the L or R edge of the table but not both reliably. I aligned the left edge and used manual line breaks on the right since I wasn't showing the table lines.
(You can use lines you establish in your header/footer for an overall box effect.) WHEW!
Microsoft Word: Formatting Paragraphs A paragraph in Word is any text that ends with a hard return. You insert a hard return anytime you press the Enter key. Paragraph formatting lets you control the appearance if individual paragraphs. For example, you can change the alignment of text from left to center or the spacing between lines form single to double. You can indent paragraphs, number them, or add borders and shading to them. Paragraph formatting is applied to an entire paragraph. All formatting for a paragraph is stored in the paragraph mark and carried to the next paragraph when you press the Enter key.
You can copy paragraph formats from paragraph to paragraph and view formats through task panes. Paragraph Alignment Paragraph alignment determines how the lines in a paragraph appear in relation to the left and right margins. The margin is the blank space between the edge of the paper and where the text. The easiest way to change paragraph alignment is to use the alignment buttons on the Formatting toolbar. You can also use keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+L= Left Align; Ctrl+R= Right Align; Ctrl+E= Center; Ctrl+J= Justify. Line and Paragraph Spacing Line space is the amount of vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph.
Line spacing is typically based on the height of the characters, but you can change it to a specific value. For example, some paragraphs may be single spaced and some double-spaced. Single-spacing is Word’s default setting. Paragraph space is the amount of space above or below a paragraph. Instead of pressing Enter multiple times to increase space between paragraphs, you can set a specific amount of space before or after paragraphs. With the insertion point in the same paragraph, click the down arrow to the right of the Line Spacing button on the formatting toolbar.
Choose 2.0 for double-spacing. Choose 1.0 to restore the single-spacing to the paragraph. Right-click the first paragraph and choose Paragraph from the shortcut menu. (You can also open this menu by selecting Paragraph from the Format menu).
Click the down arrow to open the line spacing drop-down list and choose Double. You can see the change in the preview box. With the dialog box still open, select Single from the line spacing drop down menu. Notice the change in the preview pane. Choose Multiple from the Line Spacing drop-down list. In the At box, key 1.25 (highlight the text in the box and type over it).
Press Tab to see the change in the preview pane. Notice that Word has added an extra quarter-line of space between lines in the paragraph. Exercise: Changing Paragraph Spacing You use the Paragraph dialog box to set the space between paragraphs. Paragraph spacing is set in points. If a document has 12-point text, then one line space equals 12-points, one-half line space equals 6-points, double-spacing equals 24-points.
Paragraph Indents An indent increases the distance between the side of a paragraph and the left or right margin. Indented paragraphs appear to have different margin settings. Word provides a variety of indents to emphasize paragraphs in a document.