Thank you Heidi.  Now if I could figure out an easy way to check for 
these things without having to go through the whole document page by 
page.

-jc

On Dec 23, 2003, at 9:09 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In a message dated 12/21/2003 9:54:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> What do you call it when your paragraph is too long to fit at the
> bottom of a page?  What do you call splitting it between too pages, or
> advancing it to the next page?
>
> Is it still considered bad form to have too little on one page?
>
>
>
> While it is preferable to break a page at the end of a paragraph, it 
> isn't mandatory. The only big no-no is to make sure that you don't 
> have just *one* line of a paragraph split onto another page. The term 
> you are probably looking for is "widow", but I believe that refers to 
> one word left hanging on one line at the end of a paragraph (also a 
> no-no in layout terms).
>
> I guess all those years cranking out newsletters for the historical 
> society taught me something after
> all.
>
> -Heidi