Caption at top of each page when table is more than one page

[Chrism]

I have some very long tables that spill onto a second page in Word 2003. I
don't know how to put the caption at the top of the 2nd page (e.g. Table 5.
Rare plant species (cont).) It won't let you type there, because it thinks it
is in the middle of a table, but there must be some way to do it
automatically?

Thanks!

 

[Chrism]

That might work, but I think I have already used up that first-row-repeat
option by repeating the titles of each of the columns on each page.

This is a caption that I created by right clicking the table and then
choosing Caption. I believe I have to use this Caption option so that the
title of the table will appear in my Table of Tables later?

Thanks,
Chrism

 

[Stefan Blom]

More than one row can be a repeated heading. So you can add a row at
the top of the table, remove its borders, merge the cells, and then
place the caption inside it (just use cut and paste). Then check the
Heading Rows Repeat option for this row, too.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Stefan Blom]

But this assumes, of course, that the table is in a separate Word
section. Also, captions include SEQ fields which cannot be used in
headers or footers (unless they include the \c switch which repeats
the current number in the body of the text).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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