#Change widows and orphans in word 2010 professional

Not sure why - but I created this version (where there is a paragraph return at the end after pages, and a tab inserted in front of the URL).Īuthor (Year). The best option is to insert a tab in front of the URL after the paragraph break, but it won’t fix the orphan problem. Maybe one or both of those have been added and I missed them, but they aren’t listed in the insert field dropdown with other punctuation and characters. Don’t get scared off though.įorce separations aren’t the same as non-breaking space, and there is no way, to my knowledge - to insert a line break, which would be distinct from a paragraph return in endnote. This contains some Word Power User options. That seems excessively messy.Īnybody have a solution to this? A happy bibliography would look like this (minus the orphan and hanging indent problem) I can fix that in the template by inserting a number of spaces before the URL, but that seems clunky because if I every change my document formatting I will have to go back and change the number of leading spaces in the template. So I went back to solution 1, which still gives me orphans on some pages and, because I inserted the end of paragraph marker, it does not apply the hanging indent to the URL. However I now get strange “kerning” on the line before the URL because EN tries to justify both margins and if there are too few words on the line the spacing looks really strange. I would like to keep the lines together since most citations are only 3-4 lines at most.Īttempt two was to get rid of the paragraph marker and insert some forced separation marks. If I press on the “Insert Field” drop down I have a choice of inserting a paragraph mark, which forces the URL to the next line but then EN thinks it can split my citation at that point so sometimes my citation appears on one page, and the URL at the top of the next page. That works, sort of, but EN only gives you a limited number of formatting options in the custom style editor. Once you have followed these steps, the page will no longer have a bottom margin larger than one inch.My problem is this I want to have a citiation in a bobliography of the following form:Īuthor, Title. Un-check the Widow/Orphan control check box.Highlight the paragraphs in which you want to control widow and orphan.However, if you do wish to disable this option, please follow the steps below.

#Change widows and orphans in word 2010 professional

This type of paragraph handling is very common in professional papers, so it is recommended that you leave this setting as is.

By default, Word is set to automatically adjust documents to prevent widows and orphans, resulting in bottom margins that appear to be more than one inch. Widow/Orphan Control is a setting in Word that prevents a single line of a paragraph from being left alone at the top (known as a 'widow') or bottom (known as an 'orphan') of a page. There is a very good reason for this called 'Widow/Orphan Control.' However, when working on a paper in Microsoft Word, you may experience instances when the bottom margin appears to be more than one inch. APA 7 requires that the margins in a paper are one inch all the way around.