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Shona

Hi

I have a table that because the row is longer than a page moves to the next
page leaving only a small arrow on the page before.

Is there away around this. I'm sure there used to be somewhere allow row to
split across page but I can't find out where.

Any ideas would be great

Thanks

Shona
 
The "Allow Row to split across page" is the default action when you create a
table. You need to turn it off if you don't want it. To do that, place
your cursor in the row, click the "Table" menu, select "Table Properties",
click the "Row" TAB and check or uncheck the option.

Another thing you can do is to select some of the text, click the "Format"
menu, select "Paragraph", click the "Line and page breaks" TAB, and check
the "Keep with next" or "Keep lines together" options depending on the look
you want.

Hope this helps!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
"Keep lines together" and even "Widow/orphan control" have no effect in a
table row if you have allowed the row to break across pages. Even "Keep with
next" works only between (not within) rows. "Page break before" is quite
useful in tables, however, because it allows you to break the table without
splitting it (and thereby losing the repeating headings).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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I just created a 50 row , two column table and started typing in the bottom
row of the top page until part of the text it rolled down to the bottom page
(same cell). I highlighted some of the text at the bottom of the page and
some of the text at the top of the next page (same cell) row), clicked
"Format", "Paragraph", clicked the "Lines and page breaks" TAB and checked
both the "Keep lines together" and the "Keep with next" and the cell data
rolled down to the 2nd page! I've been using this feature off and on since
Word 97 so I thought I was right. Not sure why it doesn't work for you.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
It may have done this because you have activated "Keep with next" relative
to the next row. What happens if you apply "Keep with next" only to the
first paragraph in the row? (This assumes that you have "Allow rows to break
across pages" enabled.)

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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I applied "Keep with next" AND "Keep lines together" to the text in the same
cell across two pages. I didn't select more than one row only the text in
one cell that broke across the page. I can send you my example if you wish!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
Presumably the row did not have more than one paragraph in it? How can you
test whether "Keep with next" is effective within a row if you have just one
paragraph? And you didn't answer my question about whether you were allowing
rows to break.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Thank you for all your suggestions some of which I tried. In the end I just
moved some of the text at the bottom of the row to another row and that
solved it.

Thanks again

Shona
 
My original post said, "...check the "Keep with next" or "Keep lines
together" options depending on the look you want."

If I have one paragraph in a cell of a row and it breaks across the page, I
can highlight it and select "Keep with next" and it will move to the next
page to keep with the next row. If I have two paragraphs within the same
cell of a row, I can highlight part of the first paragraph and part of the
next paragraph and click "Keep lines together" and the two paragraphs will
move to the next page to keep together. Both of these options works even
with the "Allow row to break across page" checked under Table Properties
(default value).

I am so used to using this feature when working outside of paragraphs that I
tent to go this way instead of unchecking the "Allow row to break across
page" option.

However, I will stop this thread here because I am getting tired of your
antagonistic "tone". Most of us are not as smart as you on Word, and may
never be, but we are all trying to learn!

Bill
 
I'll have to experiment with this some more because my experience has been
that these features do not work in tables, but it may be that they just work
unpredictably.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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I'll have to experiment with this some more because my experience has been
that these features do not work in tables, but it may be that they just work
unpredictably.
Click to expand...

FWIW, I have noticed that "Keep with next" will work (in Word 2000) if
you apply the change to the first cell (with or without text) of the
row, or if you select the entire row before applying the change - even
with "Allow row to break across pages" checked. "Keep lines together"
doesn't seem to have any effect within paragraphs in a table.

So it does seem to work with predictable inconsistency!

hro
 
My experience, as stated before (and as written in
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm), is that "Keep
lines together" and "Widow/orphan control" have no effect in table cells in
which breaking is allowed. "Keep with next," applied to a table row, will
keep it with the next row, but, if "Allow rows to break across pages" is
enabled, "Keep with next" does not work between paragraphs in a single cell.
These observations were made in Word 97, and it is entirely possible that
Word's behavior has changed in Word 2002; I have not tested in that version.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
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