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Tables and paragraph breaks
I'm inserting a table into a single page word document. It sits at the bottom
of the page, under the text. There is enough room for it to fit, but I want to maximise the size of the table using all the available space. However, when I drag the bottom edge of the table to where the ruler shows the margin to be, the table breaks and continues on a new page. Revealing non-printing characters shows that there is a paragraph break below the table, so presumably the reason the table breaks when it hasn't exceeded the page margins is because room is needed for the paragraph break. This seems a bit strange, because with text, the break comes at the end of a line, i.e. it doesn' t need a line of its own. Is there a way round this? |
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Tables and paragraph breaks
You can select and format the paragraph mark (¶) following the table as 1 pt
font size, with line spacing set to 1 pt, and spacing before/after both set to zero. You can also format it as hidden. You can even create a paragraph style with all of these characteristics, and apply it to the paragraph following the table. Give the style a descriptive name such as Hidden Paragraph. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Blacktom" wrote in message ... I'm inserting a table into a single page word document. It sits at the bottom of the page, under the text. There is enough room for it to fit, but I want to maximise the size of the table using all the available space. However, when I drag the bottom edge of the table to where the ruler shows the margin to be, the table breaks and continues on a new page. Revealing non-printing characters shows that there is a paragraph break below the table, so presumably the reason the table breaks when it hasn't exceeded the page margins is because room is needed for the paragraph break. This seems a bit strange, because with text, the break comes at the end of a line, i.e. it doesn' t need a line of its own. Is there a way round this? |
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hi Blacktom,
You cannot avoid having at least one paragraph below the last table in a document. You can, however, minimize that paragraph's effects by: 1. reducing the point size to 1 2. eliminating any 'space before' 3. formatting the paragraph as hidden -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "Blacktom" wrote in message ... I'm inserting a table into a single page word document. It sits at the bottom of the page, under the text. There is enough room for it to fit, but I want to maximise the size of the table using all the available space. However, when I drag the bottom edge of the table to where the ruler shows the margin to be, the table breaks and continues on a new page. Revealing non-printing characters shows that there is a paragraph break below the table, so presumably the reason the table breaks when it hasn't exceeded the page margins is because room is needed for the paragraph break. This seems a bit strange, because with text, the break comes at the end of a line, i.e. it doesn' t need a line of its own. Is there a way round this? |
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Tables and paragraph breaks
As Stefan and "macropod" have pointed out, you can't avoid the paragraph
after the table, but the reason the table is breaking (as opposed to just having a "blank" page for the empty paragraph) is likely that the last row of the table is formatted as "Keep with next." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Blacktom" wrote in message ... I'm inserting a table into a single page word document. It sits at the bottom of the page, under the text. There is enough room for it to fit, but I want to maximise the size of the table using all the available space. However, when I drag the bottom edge of the table to where the ruler shows the margin to be, the table breaks and continues on a new page. Revealing non-printing characters shows that there is a paragraph break below the table, so presumably the reason the table breaks when it hasn't exceeded the page margins is because room is needed for the paragraph break. This seems a bit strange, because with text, the break comes at the end of a line, i.e. it doesn' t need a line of its own. Is there a way round this? |
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