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Hello, first time poster here...please forgive any mistakes. I have a lengthy table in Word 2010 (50+ pages), created by another author, that I'm trying to make easier to read. The table has a main header row with titles for the 4 columns. This row repeats at the top of every page.

However, the table also has sections that are currently divided by a merged cell running across all 4 columns as a "section header." Rows are set to break across pages and even if they were not, some rows span multiple pages.. I can't split these longer rows up into separate rows because the rows are numbered to match other portions of the document. I also can't shuffle shorter rows around to reduce the number of rows that break across pages (table Tetris) because they are numbered in order to match the order of chapters/sections in the remainder of the document. The intended readership are laymen who could get lost easily, so readability and logical flow are critical.

What I would like to do is to make the section headers repeat at the top immediately below the main header row, even if the row breaks across pages (basically, make the section header rows behave as the main header row does).

I could split the table into smaller tables but can't seem to make more than one row repeat. Plus, some sections only have one row, so a separate table for each section looks silly and unnecessarily increases page count.

Is this possible? If so, how? I'm not averse to using VBA to make this work, but I'm not a VBA wizard.

Thank you,

Stan