I am working with a table that spans multiple pages. I believe I have correctly configured the first row as a “header” row which is to reappear at the top of each page. I will explain what I believe to be a highly relevant characteristic of this table through an illustration: Imagine a table in which the first column provides the names of each of 5 baseball teams and the second column provides the names of each of 10 players on each team, each in their own row. I created a table with 51 rows and 2 columns. I then “merged” rows 2 through 11 inclusive (row 1 is the “header” row) under column 1 (but not column 2) to create a single cell (under column 1) for the name of the first team. Likewise for the rest of the table for the 4 other teams. So column 1 has 5 rows, but column 2 has 50 rows (not counting the header row). I am not sure it’s relevant but I set the “text direction” in each of the 3 rows that now comprise column 1 to run from bottom to top rather than from left to right.



Here is the problem: Since Word will obviously not let the team name run across the page boundary and be “split” by the repeated header, I really need to ensure that all the players on any team are listed on the same page. File 1 (attached) shows what happens if you allow players on one team to cross a page boundary. I tried to remedy this by “forcing” the row containing the last player on a given team to be the last row on a particular page (you do this via Control-Enter). This worked, except that I now have lost the repeated header (see File 2, attached). How can I (1) not have a team name run across multiple pages; and (2) keep my header on each page?

Attached Files

	Sample Table 1.docx (13.8 KB, 11 views)
	Sample Table 2.docx (13.9 KB, 9 views)

One way to accomplish that is to revise the line height throughout the file. I took your sample file re-created to 40 lines (less the header) per page. I did play around with the line height to get the exact 40 lines @ 4 teams per page. The end result is attached. You should be able to modify to your specifications without any trouble.

Hope this helps...

Attached Files

Sample Table 1_Revised.docx (14.2 KB, 8 views)

Thanks for taking the time to consider my problem and offer a solution. However, as I suspect you will agree, I think the solution has the following vulnerability: If the table's precise position within a larger document is modified, there will be problems (I think). In this respect, I should have been more clear to the effect that the table is embedded in a larger document and, in the inevitable event that the document changes, the solution you propose will, I believe, no longer work.

I would think that there must be a way to ensure that no one team ever crosses a page boundary even if the position of the table gets changed as text is added (or deleted) from the larger document.

Again: I very much appreciate the time you took to offer a solution and the concerns I express do not imply any lack of such appreciation.

Yes, that is a different scenario. I have long created and maintained my own documents (or, modified them to fit my specs if others needed to modify textual data). In doing so, I would isolate the table between page/section breaks so that the table would stand on it own. Knowing that your position is not the same, I will step back and let others offer potential solutions. Sorry I could not help further...

I may well end up doing what you suggest - isolating the table. Thanks again.

Suggestion. At the point where you want to force a new page in your table, instead of Ctrl-Enter:

1. Go to the paragraph group
2. Click the dialog launcher
3. Click the line and page breaks tab
4. Check Page Break Before
5. Click OK.

This creates a new page while maintaing the table header.