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widow
In word processing, an orphan is the first line of a paragraph that appears as the last line of a page. While it can also be called an orphan the last line of a paragraph that appears as the first line of a page is sometimes called a widow.
What is the first line of a paragraph that is left alone at the bottom of a page called? Answer a.Keep Paragraphs Together b.Widow/Orphan Control c.Orphan d.Widow
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orphan
The first line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the bottom of a page is called an orphan. It is typically avoided in typesetting and desktop publishing to maintain a cleaner layout and improve readability.
That's called a "widow." If your paragraph has the last sentence on the next page, it's called an "orphan."
In any word processor or desktop publishing program a widow is the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a page, with the remainder of the paragraph being on the following page, and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph that is displayed at the top of a page. Neither of them have a function, and MS Word will, by default, not allow widows and orphans, although you can change this by placing the insertion point in the paragraph you want to affect, go to the Format... Paragraph menu, select the Line and Page Breaks tab and set whichever options you choose - for example forcing a Page Break before the paragraph.
First let us discuss in general what indention means. When one is writing text on to a computer or onto a piece of paper, one normally starts on the left hand side of the page and writes each line so that it begins set in the same amount from the edge of the page. This gap is called a 'margin'. A paragraph indentation will start a new paragraph with the margin for that paragraph shifted to the right of the line of the page margin. The indentation can be applied to all the lines of that paragraph (as I have done in this example) or just the first line. The above is an example of indentation of a paragraph.
According to the help file in Microsoft Word 2007, the first line of a paragraph all by itself at the bottom of a page is called an orphan.However, there is controversy over whether the correct term is orphan or widow. The terms are often used interchangeably.