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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Word Tables and Text Wrapping

Yes. Your previous link had some extra garbage at the end. So what you mean
by "extending off the page" is that the table breaks across pages. The
difficulty here is that, ordinarily, wrapped objects can't break across
pages. Word does make an exception for tables but apparently it does it in
such a way that text can't be continuously wrapped beside it.

In Word 2000, the first version in which tables could be wrapped, they were
not allowed to break. If you opened a Word 2000 document with a wrapped
table in an earlier version, the table appeared in a frame, and frames
cannot break across pages, either. My guess would be that Word is
dynamically creating two (or more) separate frames (or something comparable
to frames) for wrapped tables that break across pages and that your text is
being forced to wrap beside the second one.

A workaround for this would be to create a large unbordered third column to
the table and put your text there. Alternatively, since it doesn't appear to
me that items in your first column have any relation to items in your second
column, you could use newspaper-style columns instead. This would really
make more sense since it is awkward to have the Item Checklist continued on
the second page (especially without even a repeating heading row to identify
it). It would be better to have the items wrap to the top of the second
column, to be followed by the Arms Shop, etc. If desired, you could have
several narrow columns followed by a wider one for your text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Alkuna" wrote in message
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Try refreshing a few times maybe? It's showing up for me. ^_^; Technical
difficulties about today it seems. Lemme re-post the link:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...le_trouble.jpg

Does that help?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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