[Jean-Guy Marcil[_2_]]

"Typeaux" wrote:



"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

There is a "simple" (Depending on how familiar you are with Word...)
subfertuge you can use...

You will beg my pardon, but this has to rank among the Top Ten "Most
Inelegant Solutions" of all time. Apparently someone at Microsoft (all kneel)
has overlooked the fact that a gigantic number of documents undergo a
succession of revisions, often long after the original author has moved, left
the company or (alas) has died.

Therefore, this kind of klugey (read: Mickey Mouse) fix, however ingenious
(and sincerely, thank you for the post and the obvious effort to propose a
solution) and well intended, has all the earmarks of being purely diabolical
in nature in the event that a subsequent (and hapless) editor must go in and
change the tables at some future date. I can well imagine this individual
being me, and were I not by experience and training steeled against the
clever machinations of previous authors on many documents, might resort to
brief flashes of considering suicide.

I have used Word for many years, but generally for simpler documents. Some
companies still use it for creating entire books -- an endeavor generally
thought to be beyond its breeding by those who actually care about such
things.

While FrameMaker may have its own evil quirks, I find myself missing it
daily at this company. Ah well. It is an imperfect world, so best "to set
one's features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable
to wear when facing the telescreen." [George Orwell, "1984"]

Thank you again for your efforts, nonetheless. I may well have need to make
use of your solution in another time and place. It is, I fear, unsuitable for
my current project do to its progressively-authored nature.

I understand that this is not personal, and I am not taking this personally.

However, while I will admit that FrameMaker is better in this regad and that
the solution I suggested (not knowing any other way of doing this) requires
manual handling, I still think you are over-reacting a tad... It is just a
white rectangle hiding a word...

I do not think it is diabolical, Mickey Mousy, part of the top ten most
inelegant solutions of all time or that it could lead to suicide!

If you are worry that subsequent editors will have problem with this, then I
will suggest another approach.

Bookmark the title that is above the table.
Split your table at the bottom of the first page where it occurs.
Copy/Paste the header row from the top of the table to the second page.
Then, at the top of the second page, add a merged row above the header row
you just pasted.
In that merged row, add a REF field to pick up the text from the preceding
page and add the word "Continued".

You should do this only once you have all the text and that the document has
been formatted to a near final state. This way you know that your table is
split at the right palce and that it will not move much. If it does, it is
just amatter of copying/pasting the rows that need to be moved from one page
to the other.

I have used this approach a few times with manuals that had over 1,000 pages
(not all of them laid out as tables..) and it was fairly painless and fast
once I got the hang of it. You can decide not to use the REF field/bookmark
step (above) and copy paste the text instead. You just need to remember to
change it in two locations if it gets edited later on.

Cheers.

Still inelegant, but maybe less diabolical!