Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Orphan
 
A paragraph's first line when it appears alone at
the bottom of a page or column, while the rest of
the paragraph appears on the next page or column.
Word automatically avoids page breaks that leave
orphan lines. You can change this setting with
the Utilities Customize command. See also: Widow;
Page break.