Discussion
In MS Word, the term ‘widow’ refers to
Answer: C
Correct answer: a single last line of a paragraph appearing alone at the top of a page
A widow is the last line of a paragraph stranded alone at the top of the following page. Its counterpart, an orphan, is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the bottom of a page. Both are considered typographic faults because a lone line looks disconnected from the rest of its paragraph. The usual mnemonic is that a widow is left behind at the top and an orphan is left behind at the bottom - though the two names are so often swapped that it is worth checking which a source means. Word prevents both by default: Widow/Orphan control is switched on in the Paragraph dialogue under Line and Page Breaks, and it pushes an extra line over so that at least two appear together. The same panel holds related controls: Keep with next holds a heading on the same page as the text it introduces, Keep lines together prevents a paragraph splitting at all, and Page break before forces a new page.
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