Word2007 - Preventing mid-item line breaks in a list in a table

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Published on 2009-09-17T14:55:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 23:13 UTC
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It's not programming, but it's the paperwork you have to fill out ot get things to program.

When you have a list with an item that's two lines long, and text above pushes it down such that a page break should fall between the two lines, Word pushes the item down so that both lines are on the following page - this is called Widow/Orphan Control and is an option on the Paragraph menu.

When the list is inside of a table cell, however, this feature doesn't seem to work - which is what I'm looking to work around. Word doesn't push the item down automatically, so it breaks across two pages, as seen here:

Breaking where it shouldn't

Solutions that have been tried:

Playing with the options on the Paragraph tab: doesn't seem to do anything

Changing the margins or text: this is a template and will need to always work

Any ideas?

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