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Problem of rows not breaking solved
I have just spent several hours trying to work out why a table behaved badly
in an awkward Word document (W2002). I hope that the following will help anyone else with this particularly puzzling problem. I originally created the 2 x 2 table in a blank document. The top row was a header row; the other row could have as many lines of text as needed such that it broke, and some text appeared in the row on a new page (with the first row as the header row appearing on the top of the second row). The table was set up correctly - "Allow row to break across pages"; table Text wrapping -"none"; cell options - "wrap text". The text paragraphs in the row had "Keep with next" and "Keep lines together" unchecked. As soon as the whole table was copied and pasted into the awkward document, the first row remained on one page, with the second row (and the first row as its header) on the second page. The second row, however, did not break but went straight through the second page footer and appeared as a completely filled black column on the top half or so of the third page. No text was visible on that third page. I made sure that the table and paragraph properties were the same as the original document, but it made no difference. I deleted all the text (cntl-A, del) in the second document, and repasted the table. It still behaved wrongly. There was nothing obvious in page setup, and suspicion fell on the only thing left - a page number field in the footer. This was deleted, but made no difference to the the table. But I noticed the page number was surrounded by an invisible frame. When that was deleted, the table behaved perfectly! So the frame was the culprit. The frame properties we- Text wrapping - around Size: width and height - auto Horizontal: position right - Relative to margin - 0 Vertical: position 0 - Relative to paragraph Move with text was checked, Lock anchor was not. Only changing the vertical position away from "relative to paragraph" to "Relative to page" or "relative to margin" had any effect, and allowed the table to behave correctly. Unfortunately, the page number position was then in the wrong place. Can any of the MVPs explain what is going on here? It took me ages to solve this problem (the KB had the "row not breaking" problem mentioned in W97, but not Word 2002; in any case the proposed workaround didn't...). I still can't work out why the vertical position of the frame has any effect on the row. -- Jeff (cut "thetape" to reply) |
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