putting table on a new page

[webbysign]

I am writing a long paper, and I wish to enter a table, which is three
full pages long. How can I do this so that the table is not split (ie,
always starts on a new page) and the rest of the text flows around it.
(That is, if I edit the text, then it will automatically adjust so
that there is a full page of text
before the table, and after it)?

I presume there must be a fairly simply way, but I certainly cannot
find it.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sorry--you can't find it because it isn't there. Word will not
automatically fill in the space before a table like that. You'll have to
do manual adjustments--wait until you are about to print to do them, or
the page breaks will keep changing as you edit.

This sort of explains why:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/PagesInWord.html

 

[Clive Huggan]

I agree with Daiya (natch).

The sort of manual adjustment I make is -- just before printing -- to
convert a row at the bottom of each page to a paragraph mark (Table menu =>
Split Table) and let the table split there. It's easiest to do this in
Normal view (Draft view in 2008) then flick back to Page view to check.
There are other ways to do it but this is the most trouble-free.

If you need to add rows later, you can easily join the table rows back up by
dropping the insertion point into the blank paragraph mark at the bottom og
the page and hitting the Forward Delete key.

I also usually select "Repeat as header row at the top of each page" for the
row with heading details in (via Table menu => Properties).

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[webbysign]

OK, thanks. At least that means I can stop worrying about it.

 

[Clive Huggan]

*Never*, ever, worry about Word. Otherwise, sleepless nights await.

In all my grapplings with its labyrinthine stupidities, I've always consoled
myself with the thought that everywhere in its 30 million lines of code, a
human once tarried.

But then again...

CH
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