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Subject:RE: Short Word table problem From:"Steve Cavanaugh" <scavanaugh -at- nat-seattle -dot- com> To:"Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:50:36 -0800
You can choose paragraph formatting within the table that includes "Keep
with next" and Word will happily move the entire table to the next page.
I generally choose the entire row and select Keep with Next, but YMMV.
I suggest all rows but the last one have this override.
Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.
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Subject: Short Word table problem
Please note: This does NOT have to do with the "Allow row to break
across pages" command in the row tab of the Table Properties window.
That option will not solve this problem.
OK, read on:
I have a document that uses a lot of tables. Because some of the data
messages it documents are short, some tables have only 3 or 4 rows.
Therefore, some pages contain several tables, and the final table may
split with, say, one row at the bottom of one page and three at the top
of the following page. I would prefer to keep these short tables intact
and have them jump to the top of the following page.
In other words, I'm looking for widow and orphan control for table rows.
The "allow row to break across pages" option simply controls whether a
deep row is permitted to break. It doesn't control whether Word breaks a
table *between* rows, which is what I'm trying to prevent.
As always, I'm trying to avoid putting in manual page breaks. I can
select "Keep with next" for the preceding paragraphs, but I can't
control Word's splitting the table.
Unless I can, because one of you Word gurus out there knows what I
should do. Any suggestions?
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