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On Mar 26, 10:00*am, DeanH wrote:
I believe that KWN and Allow Row to Break are working properly, but that this
problem could be due to several other attributes. Literally the table is too
long to fit in the space available on the one page, even with KWN if the
table is too long it will cross over to the next page.
1. Do you have a specific height applied to any row?
2. What is the "Space before", "Space after", Line Spacing you have applied
to the table styles?

Try fiddling with these to get your table to fit.
Come back if these do not help.
DeanH

" wrote:
Hello,
hoping someone can help explain Word's behavior to me, if not provide
a solution.

I am having issues with tables breaking across the bottom of a page in
Word 2007.
I have looked at the thread initiated by Bryan Metz in December 2008
under the subject "Table splitting across page break (Word 2007)" and
followed the directions in the document on word.mvps.org (http://
word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm).

However, this hasn't solved the problem. *The table continues to break
across the bottom of the page even with "Keep with next" applied to
all rows, or all but the last row. (Formatting was applied to the
table as a whole, as well as to each row individually just to double-
check.). *Enabling or disabling "allow row to break across pages" also
had no affect.

I have noticed that if I select each individual row and check the
paragraph formatting that "Keep with next" is checked, but that if I
select the row indicator to the right of the table (note: this doesn't
select the whole row, just the indicator is selected) and check the
paragraph formatting, then "Keep with next" is NOT checked. *Enabling
this, clicking OK, and then re-checking the paragraph formatting
reveals that the "Keep with next" formatting is not retained after I
click OK.

While I know how to select the first row and apply the "Page break
before" paragraph formatting option to fix the issue, it is not ideal
as I can have up to 70 tables in a document, with more than half of
them potentially needing this fixed.

The only potential reason I can see for this behavior is that the
number of columns is not consistent throughout the table (the 1st, 3rd
and 5th rows are all 1 column, while the 2nd row is 6 columns -- not
all of equal width -- and the 4th row is 2 columns -- again, not of
equal width) and that this is confusing to Word.

Does anyone know for sure, or is there something else I am missing?

Thank you,

Ned Zimmerman

Thanks for looking into this,

The tables easily fit on one page. Typically they are 1/3 to 1/2 of a
page in length, though occasionally they can get close to a full
page. The issue I am having occurs when text before the table pushes
it near the bottom of a page.

As to heights:
1st row is at least 1.05 in.
2nd to 4th row are at least .18 in.
5th row is at least .25 in.

the 3rd row varies in height depending upon the size of a nested table
that gets pasted into it. (Yes, the nested table has "keep with next"
applied to it as well, and "allow row to break across pages"
disabled). (Note: if I used say 13 rows in place of the 3rd row,
rather than a nested table, it gave the same result).

There is no spacing applied before or after rows as Text Wrapping is
set to None.
Top and bottom internal margins vary from .01 to .04 inches, depending
on the row.

I don't know if it matters, but the table is set to 6.5 inches in
width, while the text above and below the table is 6.0 inches in width
(1.25 in. margins).

Ned