Document production

Question 1

Define the terms widow and orphan

Answer 1

Widows:
The last line of a paragraph appearing on the next line

Orphans:
Only the first line appearing on a different page

Question 2

Explain why it is necessary to use page, section and column breaks, to adjust pagination and to avoid widows and orphans

Answer 2

They are used so that the document is not filled up with blank space

Question 3

Explain why mail merged documents are created

Answer 3

They are created to save the repeated typing of similar documents that are meant to be sent to multiple people. It uses a master document as well as a data file