Yes. I have two separate text flows on each page. I will change the
document so that the table doesn't run for more than a couple pages at most.
This should solve my problems. Thanks for the tip about page breaks. I kept
wondering why the page break would appear before the page rather than where I
was inserting it at the end of a page.
I guess there is just no easy way to handle this since I am trying to create
facing pages with notes and I want the text on the left side to be able to
continueally wrap from one page to the next page while placing the Instructor
Notes at the top of each page on the right side.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You need to clarify what you mean by "split page." If you mean that you have
two separate text flows on each page, then a table is the best way to
approach this (newspaper-style columns will not work at all). Your
"Instructor's Notes" heading can be a repeated table heading or can be put
in the page header. You can easily insert a page break (without breaking the
table) by starting a new row and formatting it as "Page break before."
Although Word is never entirely comfortable with long tables, it is long
single-row tables that especially give it fits. As long as no table row is
longer than a page, you should be okay, though it doesn't hurt to break the
table whenever possible (to insert a heading, for example).
If, on the other hand, what you're actually trying to do is create facing
pages of text and notes, then there is no practical way to do this in Word.
Publisher would handle the alternating pages more easily (with text boxes),
but I suspect 280 pages might be straining its limits. For that you would
need to use a real DTP application.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"MarianneM" wrote in message
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Need to redesign a 280 landscaped split page document that allows me to
insert page breaks on the left side of the document and can word wrap to
the
next page on the left side. The right side has Instructor's Notes as a
heading and may or may not have text on any given page. Currently the
document is designed as a table on each page. This document is growing
with
new iterations of software applications so I need to be able to easily
insert
new pages without having to manually add lines to create page breaks.
Should I keep this with table formatting or set it up as columns? What
are
the advantages either way?