Table row alignment across page pairs

[Csaba Gabor]

Hi, I'm writing a document of about 200 pages where the space for
content on each page, excluding margins and headers, is roughly 5
inches wide by 7.25 inches in height. I would like to have several
tables of 4 columns (2 columns per page) and multiple rows spread over
two facing pages where each row on the two page tables has the same
height. Is there a way to make this row height sizing automatic in
Word so that the rows of the left hand table match the rows of the
table on right?

The tables will contain (computer program) code snippets which I am
comparing, so the row heights may be quite varied. I am working in
Microsoft Office Word 2003 on Win XP Pro. The rest of the document is
fairly vanilla at this point.

Thanks for any assistance,
Csaba Gabor from Vienna

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No really good way to do this except to set exact row heights of the same
height for the corresponding rows.

 

[Csaba Gabor]

Rats. Thanks for the speedy reply. I may move this to
m.p.w.programming. Csaba

 

[Csaba Gabor]

Hey, I appreciate your getting back to me so quickly. Good news - I
just had a fabulous suggestion on this from my brother: I could put
what I want into Excel, complete with formatting, into 4 column tables.
Then I should highlight a two column portion (corresponding to the left
half table, say) and do a Copy (ctrl+c). Then in Word I should do Alt
E (for Edit), Paste Special, and select Paste Link (so that changes
that I make in the original Excel spreadsheet, which may possibly
affect row height) and also paste it (As Microsoft Excel Worksheet
Object. Then I put in a page break and repeat for the other two
columns in the spreadsheet. Very nifty.

I still have to fool around with formatting and all, but I am very
pleased with this method. Saves me from a questionable macro based
approach. The link that gets pasted (which I can see with Shift+F9)
looks like:
{ LINK Excel.Sheet.8 "C:\\Enyem\\myCode.xls" "Sheet1!R1C1:R10C2" \a \p
}
and to update it (when I make changes to the Excel file) I would press
F9.

Csaba Gabor from Vienna