Keep Options

When designing templates for long documents, it’s especially handy to use InDesign’s Keep Options to prevent orphans and widows, and to make sure certain paragraphs stick together as text flows from page to page (Figure 10.23). To specify Keep Options for a selected paragraph, choose Keep Options from the Paragraph or Control panel menu (Figure 10.24).

Figure 10.23. When no Keep Options are specified, headlines can become stranded and the last line in a paragraph can end up starting a new column.
Figure 10.24. The Keep Options dialog.

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