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Cool Pages Tips / Keep Paragraphs Together
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Let me show you a trick here that'll help you be more precise with your paragraphs in a Pages document and that is, keeping paragraphs together. Also mentioned briefly here the widow and orphan lines feature. So what I'm doing here is, I want to explore just the default behavior. I have a paragraph one here and a paragraph two here if you don't that, if you need a reminder that one is a paragraph and their both paragraphs, remember you can always click on the show invisibles under the view menu here and here's a hard page break by the way, but there indeed is a paragraph return after this sentence here, there's paragraph one, there's paragraph two, give it a triple click and you can see that indeed we have two separate paragraphs. Hide my invisibles and let's look at the default behavior now. If I start to add new text to this document and then I hit enter again and what I want to see is again this default behavior, there we go. There's a paragraph on this page and there's a paragraph on this page, sometimes you might want two paragraphs to stay together for lots of different reasons, one is maybe you have a long line of explanatory text and you have like a three word or five word kind of punch line, a lot of columnist sometimes wrap up their column with some kind of tag, a punch line a witasome, whatever you want those two thoughts to always stay together. What you can do as I delete these items here, is that you can use the inspector and click on the text inspector; now what you're looking for here is the more section, which I just had up. But the more button on the text inspector, once again has a little section down here called tag nation and break and what we want to do is keep with the following paragraph. So now with that in mind or with that rule enforced let me do the same thing here, so I'll just enter, enter and what we're looking for is that this paragraph and this paragraph are going to stay together. So let me make sure I did this right, I did not, I had that as my insertion point. So let's keep with the following paragraph and this one will uncheck. There again, there's the paragraph, that's with the behavior, so this one and this one are going to go together on the page. So bingo, bingo and indeed that's exactly what happens. So with this checked, we've keep this paragraph one and paragraph two moving in tandem. If I uncheck then that's the behavior, check and that's the behavior. But also you'll see check by default is this, prevent window and orphan lines and that simple means that if you have a paragraph that has multiple lines it won't have the first line on the preceding page and then the rest of the paragraph here and same thing with orphan is that you have a line that is orphaned down here where you have a paragraph, most of the paragraph is up here and then the last sentence in the paragraph is down here on one line, it'll keep that paragraph together, if it's two lines then it would break the paragraph among pages, but this again prevents just a single line of a paragraph from appearing either here or here, depending on where the bulk of that paragraph is.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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