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A row breaks in the middle of the table
Greetings,
I use MS Word 2002. I am trying to impose a little order on a 400 page manual I've written and am encountering all sorts of knotty little problems. Here's one of my "favorites." My document has lots and lots of tables. Occasionally, I'll have one that breaks in the middle. But it's not breaking over a page. (I've already tried, Table/row/allow rows to break across pages) Instead, it's breaking at a middle row and displaying (in print layout and print preview) it as two different tables, one above the other. Interestingly, the table displays as it should in Outline view. And if I copy the table to a new document, it copies fine - as one table instead of two. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Mark Davila |
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A row breaks in the middle of the table
Hi ?B?TWFyayBEYXZpbGE=?=,
Here's one of my "favorites." My document has lots and lots of tables. Occasionally, I'll have one that breaks in the middle. But it's not breaking over a page. (I've already tried, Table/row/allow rows to break across pages) Instead, it's breaking at a middle row and displaying (in print layout and print preview) it as two different tables, one above the other. Interestingly, the table displays as it should in Outline view. And if I copy the table to a new document, it copies fine - as one table instead of two. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Well, my first thought is that you perhaps have a graphical object of some kind, probably anchored outside the table (so it's not getting copied), that might be causing this? If you click the big white arrow in the Drawing toolbar, then drag from the left edge of the page, diagonally to the right edge, over the entire table, does anything with "white handles" show up? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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A row breaks in the middle of the table
Dear Cindy,
Thank you so much for the tip. I really appreciate it. I'm not totally sure, but I think the problem actually was that there was a page break floating around somewhere (in the background?) in the middle of the table, and that the table was breaking across a page break. (Not breaking across two pages, but breaking across a hard page break lodged in the middle of a page.) I couldn't seem to delete that page break either, so I just deleted the entire page and then pasted in a copy (sans the hard page break) and it seems to have worked. Anyway, I'm going to remember your advice on using the drawing arrow to hunt for hidden graphical objects. I'm sure I'll be needing it with this 400 page opus of mine which, now that I'm trying to impose a little style-based order and consistency, is popping up with all sorts of charming surprises. Thanks again! Mark Davila "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFyayBEYXZpbGE=?=, Here's one of my "favorites." My document has lots and lots of tables. Occasionally, I'll have one that breaks in the middle. But it's not breaking over a page. (I've already tried, Table/row/allow rows to break across pages) Instead, it's breaking at a middle row and displaying (in print layout and print preview) it as two different tables, one above the other. Interestingly, the table displays as it should in Outline view. And if I copy the table to a new document, it copies fine - as one table instead of two. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Well, my first thought is that you perhaps have a graphical object of some kind, probably anchored outside the table (so it's not getting copied), that might be causing this? If you click the big white arrow in the Drawing toolbar, then drag from the left edge of the page, diagonally to the right edge, over the entire table, does anything with "white handles" show up? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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A row breaks in the middle of the table
Hi ?B?TWFyayBEYXZpbGE=?=,
I'm not totally sure, but I think the problem actually was that there was a page break floating around somewhere (in the background?) in the middle of the table, and that the table was breaking across a page break. (Not breaking across two pages, but breaking across a hard page break lodged in the middle of a page.) Hmmm. Since the "break" didn't copy across to a new document, I have my doubts whether a page break was involved. But glad things settled down for you, at any rate :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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