Hi guys, I've got an issue with modifying tables in a multi-page document. I have 41 page documents wherein each page contains more or less the same table, and I need to add a few columns/rows to it without in turn pushing every following pages' down the corresponding space. I have a feeling this will have a simple solution, and that perhaps I don't know the correct language to describe the issue for google, as I cannot imagine 15 years of development missing what seems so basic to me! Thanks in advance, and I can provide copies or further description of the documents in question if necessary.

If the columns/rows that currently reside there should not be pushed down, what should happen to them?

Do you have Show/Hide turned on so you can see what is really in what appears to be empty space?

The columns and rows that are being pushed reside on the next page, and ought to stay where they are... the new table addition will not fill all of the "empty" space. I am about to google show/hide so I can see what is actually in the spaces.. thanks

the spaces are marked with a little flag; once show/hide is turned on they can be removed. While this provides a solution in a way, I guess what I'm looking for is along the lines of the "insert" key, where your new text no longer pushes the old, it simply swallows it...

Those markers are paragraph markers. They mark the end of every paragraph. Be sure to turn on Show/Hide frequently, otherwise you'll be flying blind.

I'm thinking now that you want an inserted row to replace the existing row. If that is what your'e after, then no; you will have to delete the old row.

I am actually adding an entire new table; each table fills about 2/3 of a page and I am trying to add a second table to the bottom third... No tables need modification, this ought really to be a copy/paste affair

If you've used empty paragraphs to force each new table to start on a new page (bad), instead of using manual page breaks or 'Next page' section breaks (good), then anything you do to add rows to the existing tables must force everything else after that down ...

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