Hi all,

I'm not sure why this is happening, but I'm getting ophan letters on the end of lines that aren't being tacked on to their 'parent' word on the next line. "Parent and orphan control" is ticked and I've no idea how to get rid of this.. any takers?





Many thanks,

Asa

The highlighted section of your screenshot has nothing to do with widow/orphan control. That is for controlling whether you might end up with just one line of text from a paragraph split across a page break.

The behaviour you're describing might be caused by having non-breaking spaces between all the words. Without seeing the actual problem document, however, it can be difficult for anyone to diagnose the issue. Can you attach a document to a post with some representative data (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for the advice Paul, of course. Here's the document.

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Luke 22 exploration - The Passover and the lamb.docx (14.5 KB, 10 views)

It appears your document has originated on a system using a right-to-left language configuration. Furthermore, it has non-standard paragraph styles that it then overrides with non-standard character Styles.

I'd suggest creating a new document, then copying the content from the exiting document & pasting it into the new document as unformatted text. You will lose all formatting, but that will also restore your ability to control the paragraph formatting from then on - the word breaks will also be gone.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Copied it all over, bit of a pain having to reformat everything but it definitely sorts the problem, thanks very much Paul.

Asa