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Is there any way to set a minimum number of words for the last line in a paragraph? And if not a native one, maybe some kind of script or automated workaround? Manually fixing these is extremely tedious.

I've seen a lot mentioned about the Widow/Orphan control option for preventing single lines at the end or beginning of a page, however nothing I've seen addresses single-word lines at the end of a paragraph.

I've seen at least a few different definitions of widow, so narrowing down a solution has been very difficult.

I've attached an example - 'game.' is the widow.
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There is no setting in Word to do that. Although you could force a certain number of words to appear on the last line via the use of non-breaking spaces, that is liable to distort the spacing of the previous line, too.
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Thanks for the reply.

I have in the past just used non-breaking spaces in strategic places in the paragraph, but I thought maybe Word would have some function for calculating the word spacing to prevent a single word from appearing alone on a line at the end of a paragraph. I should probably make a feature request.
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