Table slightly fragments & shifts, row won't break

[Sam]

I encounter this regularly with Word XP and it's driving
me batty. I have the "Allow row to break across page"
enables and do not have "keep with next" enables as the
paragraph format. Still, sometimes the row will not break
across the page. The text disappears off the page and the
table slightly fragments - the row heading shifts a little
above the table at the top of the page(s), some rows shift
slightly to the left, and the text disappears at the
bottom of the page. When this happens, I generally am
unable to place the cursor in the table cells, or at least
some of the celss. I believe this tends to happen when one
column of the table have a lot of text and the other
columns of the row have little. Has anyone encountered
this? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Sam

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Sam,

I've definitely seen weird stuff with tables; nothing quite
like you describe, however...

Do you still see the "shiftiness" if you go into Print
Preview? Or print the page(s)? Often, the problem lies with
the graphics card driver. Word works them really hard, and
the graphics card manufacturers are constantly updating their
drivers to keep up with all the new demands Word puts on
them. Try getting the most recent version from the
manufacturer's website and see if that helps settle things
down.

I encounter this regularly with Word XP and it's driving
me batty. I have the "Allow row to break across page"
enables and do not have "keep with next" enables as the
paragraph format. Still, sometimes the row will not break
across the page. The text disappears off the page and the
table slightly fragments - the row heading shifts a little
above the table at the top of the page(s), some rows shift
slightly to the left, and the text disappears at the
bottom of the page. When this happens, I generally am
unable to place the cursor in the table cells, or at least
some of the celss. I believe this tends to happen when one
column of the table have a lot of text and the other
columns of the row have little. Has anyone encountered
this?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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