If the entire drop cap cannot fit on the page, Word obligingly moves it to the next page. Then select the character and make it a 10-line drop cap.
Format the single character as a very small point size and make its color white. For instance, you might try using an uppercase letter I. A drop cap can be up to 10 lines deep all you need to do is make sure that the "dropped" character is something that is very, very thin. If the lower third of a page is not deeper than 10 lines of text, then you could use a rather novel approach to your headings: Format them with a drop cap. Word moves the heading to the preceding page, repaginates the document, and you could continue scanning for headings that could be moved. (Just insert the building block and then modify the text in the actual heading paragraph.) Before printing, manually go through the document and, if you see that a heading could be moved to the preceding page, delete the page break that is just in front of the heading paragraph. If you then select the page break and Heading 1 paragraph, you could define it as a building block that you could later use for all your headings.
#How to move pages in word manual#
The reverse approach would be to actually place manual page breaks before all your Heading 1 paragraphs. They would automatically be moved to the top of the next page, Word would repaginate the document, and you could continue scanning for headings that needed to be moved. Then, before printing, you could manually go through the document, one page at a time, and apply the secondary Heading 1 style to those headings that are too far down the page for your liking. These two styles would be very easy to use all you need to do is make sure that all regular Heading 1 styles are used throughout the document. The other style could be based on the regular Heading 1, but it could have the Page Break Before setting (discussed earlier) enabled. One of the styles could be considered "normal," meaning that it will appear in the normal flow of your document text. One approach is to define two Heading 1 styles. This means that Bruce needs to come up with a workaround that will accomplish what he wants. While these controls are fantastic, they won't meet Bruce's needs because none of them will force a heading to the next page if it would normally appear in the bottom third of a page. (This presumes that you have the following paragraph formatted for Widow/Orphan Control.) This is great for a heading, as it ensures that a heading must be with at least two lines of the paragraph that follows it. This setting, when chosen, ensures that the paragraph stays with the paragraph that follows it. Even though most headings are single lines, this is a handy setting for headings in case they require multiple lines. This setting, when chosen, ensures that if a paragraph requires multiple lines, a single line of the paragraph won't be left alone at the bottom or top of a page. This setting, when chosen, forces the paragraph to always start at the top of the next page. (A heading is a type of paragraph, so this applies to headings just as easily as it does to any other type of paragraph.) On the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box you can see these three settings: Word has a built-in capability to adjust pagination based on the characteristics of a paragraph. He wonders if there is a way to do this, perhaps with a macro. Bruce would like to have any Heading 1 paragraphs start at the top of the next page if they would otherwise fall into the lower 1/3 of the previous page.