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Fixing widows and orphans - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign for Editors
Fixing widows and orphans
- [Voiceover] The terms "Widows" and "Orphans" refer to lines that become dissassociated from the rest of the paragraph. Last lines stranded at the top of a page or first lines stranded at the bottom of a page. The best way to avoid these problems if you have the option, is with a subtle rewrite. But when rewriting isn't possible, you can adjust the tracking of the type. Tweak the amount of space between the words and the characters. This is typically the responsibility of the designer but if this task should fall to you in the late edit stage, here are some tips. I'm gonna move through this chapter by holding down my Option or Alt key and I'm pressing the page down key, and we see that at the top of page 130 we have a widow, and we have another one at the top of page 132. Often the solution to these problems lies in the text that precedes them, and in this case, I'm gonna move to page 127, where I'm going to adjust the spacing on this paragraph. And I'm choosing this paragraph…
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