[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Format the text in the vertically merged cell so that its paragraphs have
the Keep with next attribute.

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"Jason11" wrote in message
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DeanH - Thanks for the response, but it doesn't seem to work. I have set
Keep with Next and it still breaks over the merged rows...any other ideas?

"DeanH" wrote:

You are correct in turning off the "allow rows to break across pages" but
also you will need to use the Paragraph format of Keep With Next on the
text
in the first column(s) to keep these rows together.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...ksInTables.htm for
further information.
Hope this helps
DeanH


"Jason11" wrote:

All -

I have a table that I am copying from excel into word. The table has
vertically merged cells, along side un-merged cells. For example:

______________________________
|vertically merged |____________|
|cells... |____________|
|________________|____________|

I don't want the table to break across pages within the vertically
merged
cells. When i uncheck "Allow Row to Break Across pages" this seems to
stop
the unmerged cells from breaking, but does not stop the merged cells
from
breaking...in other words, in the example above, i might get
"vertically
merged" on one page and "cells..." on the next...while if that same
text was
in an unmerged cell, it would not span multiple pages.

Does anyone know how to deal with this problem? Anything would be
appreciated. Thanks a lot.