Thanks for both replies Suzanne - very much appreciate your help.

Chris
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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If you've applied the borders as direct formatting, you can get out of it
by
either resetting the style (Ctrl+Q) or applying a different style. In the
case of a heading, this should be automatic. At least the first three
heading styles have Normal defined as the style for the following
paragraph,
so when you press Enter at the end of a heading (bordered or not), you
should get a Normal paragraph (with no border).

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"ChrisB" wrote in message
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Ah ha - I knew there was a way - thank you!

One other question - similar.

If you create a new document, type a heading and format it with borders
and
shading - but forget to put a para mark in, you also get stuck.

Is there a quick way out of this situation?

Many thanks
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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And you can get to that paragraph mark by pressing Right Arrow twice
from
the last cell of the table.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:22:51 -0000, "ChrisB"
wrote:

I'm sure I used to know of a shortcut key which takes you outside a
table
if
you get stuck in it. To explain what I mean, if you create a table
from
the
beginning of a document and do not leave a line beneath it, you end
up
not
being able to create a page break.

I can get around it by splitting the table etc. but I'm sure there's
a
shortcut?

Anyone know?

Hi Chris,

Using Table Split is one way. The other is to put the cursor in
front of the first character in the top left cell and press Enter.
That will create a new paragraph above the table. If the cursor is
anywhere else in the table, the new paragraph will be inside the
table.

There is always a paragraph mark below (outside) a table, which you
can see if you turn on nonprinting characters with the ¶ button.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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