page breaks and tables

[Kiwiguy]

We have a teacher at school that has made up a table, which has worked
fine up until the last few days. Now while her table looks fine on
screen , when she prints it out it says there are 56 pages. After
looking at it I realized that it is seeing each cell as an individual
page. Some cells appeared to have page breaks in the, but you can't
delete them. Have tried starting from scratch but the same thing
happened on a new table, although to a less extent (not every cell was
a new page, just some). She swears it's only started happening in the
last few days.

Any ideas on what it could be?

 

[mmmmark]

We have a teacher at school that has made up a table, which has worked
fine up until the last few days. Now while her table looks fine on
screen , when she prints it out it says there are 56 pages. After
looking at it I realized that it is seeing each cell as an individual
page. Some cells appeared to have page breaks in the, but you can't
delete them. Have tried starting from scratch but the same thing
happened on a new table, although to a less extent (not every cell was
a new page, just some). She swears it's only started happening in the
last few days.

Any ideas on what it could be?

Some text probably got pasted into a cell and carried with it a style and/or
manual formatting. The only way to avoid this (especially if you are not
style savvy) is to "Paste Special" and select "plain text" which then adopts
the formatting already present in the table. If you are not using styles,
select all and clear formatting.

Select the whole table (or the offending rows) and select Paragraph from the
Format menu. Pick the "Line and Page breaks" tab and see what is check
marked here. The default is to only have "widow/orphan". "Page Break
Before" is usually the check box that causes lots of page breaks. This may
have been selected _on purpose_ for some row or cell, but then got copied by
accident to all cells/rows. Uncheck everything but default and see what
that gets you.

Good luck!
-Mark