Hi Paul,
thanks for your suggestion. Have tried and found that this approach as well depends on the option to have visibility of non-printing characters switched on.
In parallel I was looking for a solution to prevent word from breaking to a new page within a table and applied the settings explained in http://ragrawal.wordpress.com/2008/0...s-in-one-page/ (approach is quite similar for WORD 2010).

Combining your suggestion with the explained style settings leads to success (as far as I was able to test).

So thanks to you and the author of the style settings, Ritesh Agrawal, for solving my problem.

Kind regards Rolf