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 message
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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.