Lonely Heading at the Bottom of Page

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November 2, 2023
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I'm composing a long document in InDesign with headings and body copy paragraph styles. Sometimes, the heading ends up alone at the bottom of a text frame, with its body copy on the next page. How can I get the Heading to automatically roll over to the next page with its body copy?

How to

Correct answer Robert at ID-Tasker

But beware - "[ ] KEEP WITH PREVIOUS" - have nothing to do with "KEEP WITH NEXT xxx LINES".

It looks like one depends on the other - but it's just bad UI.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Outfauxed:

As per Robert, all titles/heads should be instructed to keep with the next paragraph so that they don't end up alone at the bottom of a page.

I recommend enabling Keep With Next: 2 lines in your title/heading paragraph styles. This is pretty standard—we normally want to have two lines of a multi-line paragraph together, though I do have one client who prefers the single line that Robert suggested.

You can read more about keep options if you scroll down to Control paragraph breaks using Keep Options on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/formatting-paragraphs.html.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training