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Subject:MSWord problem From:"Virginia L. Krenn" <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 7 Dec 1994 08:26:30 -0600
At 7:03 PM 12/04/1994 +0000, Margaret Redding wrote:
I'm editing some papers in MSWord (6.0), formatting the text in
columns. I find that sometimes I cannot get my columns to balance at
the bottom. There seems to be room to put another line of text at the
bottom of a column, but I cannot persude the text to stay there. I
have turned of widows and orphans protection, but still the problem
persists.
Has anyone had experience of this problem (and solved it)? >
Thanks for any help.
I had solved a similar problem by inserting a page break after the line
that wouldn't stay on the previous page. I'm not sure why this works; but,
it does.
