I think your terminology may be confusing everyone (including possibly
yourself). A header is something that repeats at the top of the page. A
heading is a particular kind of style. A table can have a heading row (or
rows) that, like a page header, repeat(s) at the top of each page. In order
to make a heading row repeat, you check the appropriate option on the Table
menu. In Word 2000 and up, it's Heading Rows Repeat; in earlier versions,
it's just Heading, I think.

If you are applying a table style, you can define a specific format for the
top row (confusingly identified as "Header row").

If you are asking about putting a table (cell) in the page header, then what
is your question? You can create a table in the header just as you can
anywhere else.

I think you're still asking the question answered in my first paragraph,
though. You make a row (not a cell) a heading row by selecting it and
checking Heading Rows Repeat. You can have as many heading rows as you want,
but they must be contiguous and at the top of the table. If you don't want
them to repeat, then there is no point in designating them as heading rows.
You can still, however, apply heading styles.

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"Sam Hobbs" wrote in message
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Thnk you for your thorough answer. I am sorry, but my question was not
clear. My question is "How do I make a table cell a header?". The part
about
how to make make the header repeat made the question confusing. I did not
intend to ask how to make the header repeat. I meant to ask how to make
the
header; that is, how to specify that a row is a header row.

I know that many people put their question after a long explanation, but
since I have answered thousands of questions in another forum, I know how
much it helps to have the question at the top. Unfortunately, many people
don't expect the question to be at the top, so it is confusing to have the
question at the top; right? Sorry.


"JBNewsGroup" wrote in message
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Hi Sam,

You do not say which version of Word. However, in Word 2000 do the
following steps:

1. Select the top table rows that you want to be a header.
2. On the Menu bar click on "Table".
3. On the drop down menu find "Heading Rows Repeat" and click on it.

As the table expands to a second page, or newspaper column if that is
set
up, the rows you selected will be repeated. The "header" must be one,
or
more, of the first table rows and must be consecutive rows. If any
other
rows are selected the "Heading Rows Repeat" will be disabled( Grayed
out ).

There may be a keyboard shortcut for this but I do not know of one.
Maybe
someone else can give you the shortcut keys if there is one.

Jerry Bodoff

"Sam Hobbs" wrote in
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How do I make a table cell a header?

Or is there nothing in Word for specifying a cell as a header? I sure
thought I had done that but it has been a long time. Perhaps I am just
too
accustomed to HTML, in which there are separate tags for header cells.

I looked in the Word documentation and could not find anything, except
something describing how to "Repeat a table heading on subsequent
pages",
which sure implies that there is something such as "a table heading" in
Word
too. If that is true, then it is impossible to find in the Word
documentation how to make them. If that is not true, then the haeding
"Repeat a table heading...." is sure misleading.