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Tech Tip: Avoid widow and orphans in 4D Write Pro
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 18 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: June 18, 2020

When working with 4D Write Pro, you may come across widows and orphans. A widow is a paragraph ending line that is displayed at the beginning of the following page. Likewise, an orphan is a paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page.

In order to avoid widows and orphans, you can advantage of a new attribute to avoid these scenarios.

WP SET ATTRIBUTES($range_o;wk avoid widows and orphans;wk true)


Simply set the attribute to a range and widows and orphans will now be avoided.

Before:


After: