Soft page break in a Table

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I'm having a very strange table issue. Below my header row, I am getting a soft page break, where the rest of my table is on the next page. I've tried recreating some rows, and checked the table properties, but the break keeps coming back in the same place. How would I get rid of the break?
 
Click in the row below the header row, click "Format", "Paragraph". Click
the "Line and Page Breaks" TAB. You probably have either or both "Keep with
next" or "Keep lines together". Uncheck them both, click "OK" and see it
that fixed it.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Sharon said:
I'm having a very strange table issue. Below my header row, I am getting a
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soft page break, where the rest of my table is on the next page. I've tried
recreating some rows, and checked the table properties, but the break keeps
coming back in the same place. How would I get rid of the break?
 
I'm having a very strange table issue. Below my header row, I am getting a soft page break, where the rest of my table is on the next page. I've tried recreating some rows, and checked the table properties, but the break keeps coming back in the same place. How would I get rid of the break?
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Check the Page Setup of your document. File->Page Setup->Layout.
Make sure that the Vertical Alignment is set to "Top". If it is set
to "Center", "Justified", or "Bottom", depending on the position of
your table on the page, as well as the number and height of rows you
have chosen, it may do weird things to your table!

hro
 
Thanks Bill, that seems to have worked. When I did that just to one row, it moved up just that row, so I did that to the entire table and that did the trick

Sharon
 
Some how the paragraph setting got set inside your table and as you created
more rows each row took on the attiributes of the row above (normal
feature). This, by the way, is the CORRECT way to keep lines together
instead of hitting multiple hard returns or inserting manual page breaks
when stuff falls between pages, etc. Remember how to use this feature
because it is quite beneficial in getting clean formatting of your document.

Glad it worked for you.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Sharon said:
Thanks Bill, that seems to have worked. When I did that just to one row,
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it moved up just that row, so I did that to the entire table and that did
the trick.
 
Also keep in mind that the default row setting on long tables (more than one
page worth) is to "Allow row to break across page". It is always a good
idea when you first create your table to do one of the following:

1. Create a one row table, then set your formatting properties ("Table",
"Table Properties", "Row") the way you want, then when you TAB in the last
cell to create a new row it will take on the formatting attributes of the
row above; or,

2. Create your multi-row table, select the table, click "Table", "Table
Properties", click the "Row" TAB and unclick the "Allow row to break across
page" option.

Good Luck with your inheritance! <VBG>

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Sharon said:
Believe me, this wasn't my document to begin with. I'm just cleaning up
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someone else's mess, and I can't always see where things come from
originally. :-)
 
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