Assume I create a table which spans across multiple pages.



When I look now at the bottom of e.g. page 3 then the last row here contains 12 text lines. The first 4 lines are currently on page 3 and the last 8 text lines of the same row are on top of the following page 4.

So the row is split between two physical pages.

Is there an (easy) way to tell Word2007 to automatically split rows only at row boundaries and NOT inside a row?

Peter

Select the whole table. Right-click the table and select Table Properties from the context menu. On the Row tab, clear the "Allow row to break across pages" option, and click OK.

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Stefan Blom
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Microsoft 365 apps for business
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Ok, thank you I found it BUT:

The checkbox is already cleared but rows ARE split across pages.

Is it because the tabel is already filled?
That would mean users have to set this option at the very beginning of the tabel creation.

Furthermore I cannot check + re-uncheck the checkbox.
It is somehow disabled/protected.

How can I fix and re-uncheck the checkbox?

With large selections (= many selected rows in the case of a table), or if a selection has conflicting settings, an option may appear "dimmed." If you do click it anyway, does something happen?

If it doesn't, could the document be protected in some way? Then you'd have to unprotect.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Meanwhile I have an idea why it is not selectable.

In some of the cells of the first row I rotated the text by 90deg.
Because of this the first row gets a specific height in Table Properties (which should not be altered).
Because of this I cannot disable "allow row to break across pages" for the first row.
Because of this there is a mix of Specific Heights and undefined heights for the remaining rows.
Because of this the table cannot be treated as one object and the row split defined once for all.

Meanwhile I disabled for all but the first row individually the row split. It works now but I have only 20 rows.

Users with 300 rows will a problem here.

Can you confirm this?

Is there a way to define a default value in Word2007 for all (future) tables?

Your observation is correct: if you change the text direction in a cell, the option to allow rows to break across pages is greyed out. I must admit that I hadn't noticed this before.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional