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Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Measurements palette. Using the
Measurements palette conserves screen space, and you continuously see the
effects updated as you change tab settings. You can drag tab icons to the ruler or
drag tab icons directly into text. When you are dragging tabs to the ruler or to
text, a vertical line displays on screen to help you decide where to position the
tab.
Controlling widow and orphan lines
Widows and orphans are two kinds of typographically undesirable lines. Traditionally,
a widow is defined as the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top of a column. An
orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a column.
Using the Keep Lines Together feature, you can choose not to break paragraphs, so
that if all the lines in a paragraph do not fit in a column or on a page, the whole
paragraph will flow to the top of the next column or page. Alternatively, you can
specify the number of lines that must be left at the bottom of a column or box, and
at the top of the following column or box, when a paragraph is broken. Using the
Keep with Next ¶ feature, you can keep a paragraph together with the paragraph that
follows it. This lets you keep a subhead together with the paragraph that follows it, or
keep other lines of text that logically go together from being separated.
It is common to specify Keep with Next ¶ for headline and subhead style sheets and
specify Keep Lines Together (usually with Start and End parameters) for body text
style sheets.
To turn the Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next ¶ features on or off for selected
paragraphs:
(Windows only): Choose Style > Formats to display the Formats tab of the
Paragraph Attributes dialog box, then check or uncheck Keep Lines Together
and Keep with Next ¶
(Mac OS X only):Use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.
Working with text shading
Text shading can be applied to a paragraph as a whole or to just a selection of text
within a paragraph.
Creating and editing text shading styles
A text shading style is a named collection of text shading attributes. You can apply
the attributes of a text shading style's to text by simply applying the style to the text.
To create a new text shading style or edit an existing one:
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Open the Text Shading Styles dialog, (Edit > Text Shading Styles).
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