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documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Widow
 
A paragraph's final line when it appears alone at
the top of a new page or column, while the rest
of the paragraph is on the preceding page or
column. Word avoids paragraph breaks that leave
widows. You can change this setting with
the Utilities Customize command. See also:
Orphan; Page breaks.