How to guarantee that chunks of text don't get split across page breaks in MS Word?

Question

I'm familiar with widow/orphan protection in MS Word, but that doesn't help me, for reasons you'll see below. I've also tried putting the chunks of text in tables and that doesn't help either. Here's the problem:

I often work with outlines that involve chunks of bulleted text that look like a multiple-choice test question. For example:

1. The idea that people ------- their own reality or shape their experience based on previous subjective events is one of the fundamental ------- of social psychology.

a. extricate . . privileges
b. avoid . . desires
c. construct . . axioms
d. fortify . . goals

It would be tremendously convenient if there was a way for me to guarantee that the chunks of text didn't get divided across page breaks.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

this gets rather long and involved, but I didn't want to leave anything out:

Control pagination
You can control where Microsoft Word positions automatic page breaks by setting pagination options.

Keep lines of a paragraph together on a page or in a column

Select the paragraphs that contain lines you want to keep together.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
Select the Keep lines together check box.
Keep paragraphs together on a page or in a column

Select the paragraphs you want to keep together on a page.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
Select the Keep with next check box.
Always force a page break before a paragraph

Select the paragraph that you want to follow the page break.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
Select the Page break before check box.
Control widow and orphan lines

Select the paragraphs in which you want to control widows and orphans.
On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
Select the Widow/Orphan control check box.
Note This option is turned on by default.

Prevent a table row from breaking across pages
Click the table.
On the Table menu, click Table Properties, and then click the Row tab.
Clear the Allow row to break across pages check box.
Insert a manual page break

Click where you want to start a new page.
On the Insert menu, click Break.
Click Page break.

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You can insert a page break by clicking Insert/Break, then select Page break. Insert one before your chunk, and it will all go on the next page.

I think there may be a special "non-breaking return" that ends a line but doesn't allow a page break. But I'm not sure about that one. If so, it would be in the special characters.

Answer 4

Click the table.
On the Table menu, click Table Properties, and then click the Row tab.
Clear the Allow row to break across pages check box.
-MM

Answer 5

You can manually dictate where the page break is placed. I believe you accomplish this by going to file, print preview, the page break or page separation.