Microsoft Office Forums - View Single Post - [Solved] Set table default to repeat top row in all tables

Guessed · 12-19-2016, 04:31 PM

I disagree with Paul's statement - there is a default that can be set.

Every table has a style, and every table style has a property for header rows to repeat or not. If you've never set the table style for your document, it is likely that all tables have the same 'default' table style applied to them. If this is the case, you can change the table style property and all the tables will behave as you want (unless the style setting has been overridden).

So go to the first table and Table Tools > Design and look for the active 'highlighted' table style in the Table Styles gallery. Right click it and choose Modify Table Style. Now change the 'Apply formatting to:' property to Header Row and then choose Format > Table Properties... > Row and make sure there is a tick in the Repeat as header row at the top of each page. OK out of there and you might also want to copy this style change into your template as well by selecting New documents based on this template before clicking OK in the Modify Style dialog.

Once the style is configured, you just need to make sure that each table has the header row turned on in Table Tools > Design > Table Style Options > Header Row.