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January 12, 2023
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Separating Paragraphs

  • January 12, 2023
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Is there a way to either push a paragraph to the next page or pull it back, so the last paragraph of the page is kept all on one page?

 

For example:

 

 

I've tried Keep Options. Keep with Previous, Keep Lines Together,  All lines, at Start/End, etc.. but it doesn't seem to work in my doc.

 

Does anyone know how to do this or of a script that does this?

 
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Correct answer Scott Falkner

You want to explore Keep Options, found in the Paragraph panel’s flyout menu. You can tell a paragraph to always keep all of its lines together or only a few. This means if there is only room for one line of a paragraph at the bottom of a column that line will be forced into the next column, page, or text frame. You can also control how other parargaphs keep together, say to force a subhead to always keep with the paragraph that follows.

Edit: Somehow I missed that you mentioned Keep Options. I do not know what settings you are using, so I cannot say why you are not getting the results you expect. If you want to share the file I can look at it. I have found the feature works as I intend it to.

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m1b
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January 12, 2023

Scott is right. If your Keep Options look like Scott's screenshot, and it isn't working, then that is quite strange, and we'd want to examine a sample document showing that behaviour. - Mark

Scott Falkner
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January 12, 2023

You want to explore Keep Options, found in the Paragraph panel’s flyout menu. You can tell a paragraph to always keep all of its lines together or only a few. This means if there is only room for one line of a paragraph at the bottom of a column that line will be forced into the next column, page, or text frame. You can also control how other parargaphs keep together, say to force a subhead to always keep with the paragraph that follows.

Edit: Somehow I missed that you mentioned Keep Options. I do not know what settings you are using, so I cannot say why you are not getting the results you expect. If you want to share the file I can look at it. I have found the feature works as I intend it to.

ChannersAuthor
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January 12, 2023

Thank you for your reply. I don't understand why it wasn't working before, but I remade the doc and it worked this time. Thanks so much!