You don’t need me to tell you what a paragraph is — it’s a block of text that ends with a “hard return” you insert by pressing the Enter key. In Microsoft Word, paragraph formatting covers such attributes as justification, indentation, line spacing, and what WordPerfect calls “block protect” (called something else by Word, but we’ll get to that in a moment). Some of these instructions will be familiar to anyone who’s worked with a Windows word processor before, but here’s how you can set each of these attributes in Microsoft Word:
block protect
Here’s the video tutorial I promised showing exactly why Block Protect can mess up your pagination seemingly beyond repair:
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In WordPerfect, block protect is block protect — you highlight a block of text and protect so it all shows up on the same page.
Is Word that simple? Oh, no. Microsoft had to come up with TWO different versions of block protect: Keep Lines Together and Keep With Next (accessible from the Format, Paragraph menu):
So, what’s the diff? And how do you know when to use one or the other?
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