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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, 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:
Open the Text Shading Styles dialog, (Edit > Text Shading Styles). 1.