I have a book as a Word document that I need to format to publish on "CreateSpace.com". They make paperback books, and their standard size is 6 by 9 inches.

So I have to prevent my book from having "orphans and widows", in other words to avoid situations such as a subtitle for a section that happens to end up as the last line on a page.

I also have to have reasonable margins on all sides (is there any standard rule for margins widths?).

I don't know how to set margins apart from sliding the ruler at the top, is that the best way?

So my question is, how do I instruct WORD to have appropriate margins on every page for a 6 x 9 book, and how do I prevent orphans. I know that you can format a paragraph to "keep lines together", which I think would solve the orphans problem, but would I have to go page by page through the document selecting paragraph text and setting this setting for each set of paragraphs?

Thanks

Word's 'widow/orphan control' option ensures there are at least two lines of text for a given paragraph on each page over which the paragraph is split; it doesn't really have anything to do with headings. The 'keep lines together' option is meant to ensure all lines of a paragraph are on the same page, which is quite different to what the 'widow/orphan control' option does. To ensure the 'widow/orphan control' applies to every paragraph that might require it, don't adjust the paragraphs one at a time; simply modify the paragraph Style by checking the 'widow/orphan control' option. If you want to avoid having a heading at the bottom of one page and its content at the top of the next page, use an appropriately-formatted Heading Style with the 'keep with next' paragraph attribute and no empty paragraph(s) between it and the related content.

CreateSpace.com has its own standards for margins. See the discussion at https://www.createspace.com/en/community/thread/6242, for example.

If you want accurate page layout settings, I'd strongly recommend using the menus. See, for example: http://www.augustana.edu/student-lif...rd/page-layout

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