Page layout.

When you create a new file, AbiWord uses standard page settings to control how your text will appear when printed. To change the page setup for the current document, select the Page setup option from the File menu; adjust the paper size, orientation and margins as appropriate.

Page breaks

AbiWord automatically fits text to the paper size and continues on to another page where necessary. If you want to have more control over where new pages start, you can insert your own page breaks and set page breaking options for individual paragraphs.

• To start a new page, place the cursor at the desired point and select Page break from the Insert/Break menu, or hold down Ctrl and press Enter.

To define how AbiWord prints a specific paragraph, place the cursor in the relevant paragraph, or highlight several paragraphs, then select Indents and Spacing and from the Format menu. Click on the Line and Page Breaks tab.

You can select from the following:

• "Keep lines together" to prevent a page break within the paragraph.
• "Keep with next" to ensure that a paragraph always appears on the same page as the paragraph that follows it.
• "Page break before" .
• widow/orphan control" to let a single line at the beginning or end of the paragraph appear on a separate page from the remainder of the paragraph.

Headers, footers & page numbers

Headers and footers are pieces of text (e.g. page numbers or a chapter title) which appear at the top and bottom of each page of a printed file. To add a header or footer, select Header or Footer from the Insert menu. Enter your text in the box and format it as desired.

To insert page numbers, the current time or date, press the Insert button and select from the options available. AbiWord automatically updates page numbering as you edit your file