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34. You can turn off widow/orphan

Took one Google search to find this--and no need to click on another web page. It's right there as my first entry:

1. Select the paragraph(s) in which you want to control widow and orphan.
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Page Breaks tab (My tip: you can also right click your mouse to get to the paragraph popup).
3. Select the Widow/Orphan control check box.

As for the font size/spacing issue...

You have a couple of options here that are much simpler than what you seem to be doing.

Option 1: In my experience from having to format a scary variety of academic papers, the fastest and easiest way to format a Word doc is at the *end,* when it only requires selecting multiple paragraphs to format differently from the main body of text.

Let's say that most of your doc is 24 pt double space, but you have some other paragraphs that need to be 12 pt single space, indented.

This is much easier to do at the end.

1. Select the paragraph(s) you want to switch to 12 pt single space indented.

2. In the *document* menu bar, click on the font size to switch all of them to 12.

Then for the paragraphs...

1. Select the paragraphs you want to format differently (if they're not already).
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then choose your spacing and indents on that menu.

And you're done in a few clicks/keystrokes.

Option 2: Someone mentioned templates, and that's a good idea for some tasks, like setting up that unique legal heading for different courts. For other legal tasks, templates can't account for things like switching in and out of different fonts, font sizes, spacing, indents, and so on, multiple times per doc.

That's when you make friends with macros. For instance, have a macro for a paragraph 24pt double-spaced, and then another for 12pt single-spaced with 1" left and right indent, and then switch between them as you go with a couple of keystrokes. I haven't used macros since WP, but Google can get you started on that as well:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=creating+macros+in+word

So it's not all that complicated to navigate Word, if you let Google be your guide when you need to solve/fix something: "How to add columns of numbers in a Word table," "How to sort a list in Word," "How to align columns in Word," and so on.