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Text Flow

Specify hyphenation and pagination options.

To access this command...

Choose Format - Paragraph - Text Flow tab.

Choose View - Styles - open context menu Modify/New - Text Flow tab.

Choose Edit - Find & Replace - Format - Text Flow tab.

Hyphenation

Specify the hyphenation options for text documents.

Automatically

Automatically inserts hyphens where they are needed in a paragraph.

Characters at line end

Enter the minimum number of characters to leave at the end of the line before a hyphen is inserted.

Characters at beginning of line

Enter the minimum number of characters that must appear at the beginning of the line after the hyphen.

Maximum consecutive hyphenated lines

Enter the maximum number of consecutive lines that can be hyphenated.

Breaks

Specify the page or column break options.

Insert

Mark this check box, and then select the break type that you want to use.

Type

Select the break type that you want to insert.

Position

Select where you want to insert the break.

With Page Style

Mark this check box, and then select the page style that you want to use for the first page after the break.

Page Style

Select the formatting style to use for the first page after the break.

Page number

Enter the page number for the first page that follows the break. If you want to continue the current page numbering, leave the check box unchecked.

Options

Specify the text flow options for paragraphs that appear before and after a page break.

Do not split paragraph

Shifts the entire paragraph to the next page or column after a break is inserted.

Keep with next paragraph

Keeps the current paragraph and the following paragraph together when a break or column break is inserted.

Orphan control

Specifies the minimum number of lines in a paragraph before a page break. Mark this check box, and then enter a number in the Lines box. If the number of lines at the end of the page is less than the amount specified in the Lines box, the paragraph is shifted to the next page.

Widow control

Specifies the minimum number of lines in a paragraph in the first page after the break. Mark this check box, and then enter a number in the Lines box. If the number of lines at the top of the page is less than the amount specified in the Lines box, the position of the break is adjusted.

Reset

Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialogue box was opened.

Apply

Applies the modified or selected values without closing the dialogue box.