Prevent heading from being located at the bottom of a page, but without setting it to always be at the top of a new page?

Question

I am working on my thesis and I keep running into a very annoying issue. The heading of a new section is located on the bottom of the page, and all the content of that section is located on the next page.Is there a way to set Word to automatically move the heading (Whether it be heading level 1, 2, 3, 4 etc) to the next page, but ONLY when it is at the bottom of a page? I do not want the headings to always start on a new page. My lab mates tell me this is easily done on LaTeX; however, nobody knows of a way to do it on Word.

Answer 1

You can set the style of the heading so that it appears with what follows next. Modify the style by right-clicking it in the Styles pane and choosing Modify.

 

When the Modify Style dialog box opens, click on Format at the bottom and choose Paragraph.

In the Paragraph dialog box, click on the Line and Page Breaks tab and make sure that Keep with next is checked.

Click OK and OK and now your Heading should be attached to the lines following it.