gap at bease of midle page in many paged table

[Peter]

I am making a multi-page table by cutting an pasting table
data from many tables. It worked fine for many pages.
Then on pasting in a new set of table rows it jumped to
start a new page leaving 2 inches at the bottom of the page
where I pasted and starting at the top of the next page.
I can see no reason for this in the table properties or
format paragraph sections. Puting keep together in
paragraph formatting after highlighting all except bottom
row does nothing.

I can add new blank rows at the bottom of the truncated
section so the leave space "command" seems to be part of
the new imported rows.
I can copy and paste the top row from the added section
into a new blank row at the end of the first section, but
more than one causes the gap to reappear.
How can I get the rows to join up and close th gap at the
base of this mid page?
Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have a lot of rows formatted as "Keep with next," they will jump as a
block to the next page.

 

[Peter]

Thanks. Indeed that solved the problem.

-----Original Message-----
If you have a lot of rows formatted as "Keep with next," they will jump as a
block to the next page.





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[Chris in Oz]

Let's make it a bit more challenging Suzanne. It doesn't
solve my problem. I have a similar table - multiple
cells, but not the same size. I have a single cell on the
left which goes across 3 pages. Then the 2nd column has
custom cells, so that there is some control over the
information in the 2nd column. However, the 2nd column
causes a "short" page break on one page and text in the
2nd column cell on the next page to disappear underneath
the footer. If I put a break in, it works for that cell
but it inserts a break higher up in the wrong place!
Nasty. :-0

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Whenever you merge cells vertically, all bets are off! Word does the best it
can, but sometimes it loses the battle.