Tables -- one row to a page

[Terri]

I have a customer for whom I do a report that contains a
large table--three columns, but sometimes 5 rows,
sometimes 100. And the third column has to be totaled.
No problem there.
But sometimes she requires that each row of the table
be on its own page. This came up for the first time since
I've been using Word, and I accomplished it by putting my
cursor in each row and hitting Control-Shift to insert a
hard page break.
But my formula result at the bottom right cell of the
table turned into an error message: "Table Index Cannot
Be Zero." I entered the formula and tried again, with the
same results.
I also notice that there is some sort of spacer at the
top of each page before the table row. So obviously the
way I chose to put one row on each page doesn't work very
well, and Word is treating each page as its own table.
Can you tell me the best way to put each row on a page of
its own? Should I tell Word I want each box to be at
least X inches long, so only one row can fit on each page?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Terri,

Making the row height "at least" slightly more than half the length of the
page's text area will indeed force each row onto a separate page. The
drawback is that if you display/print the table's borders, they'll always
include that minimum height, even if there's only one line of text in each
cell.

A better way to get the same effect is to format the first paragraph of each
row with "Page break before" (on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Format

Paragraph dialog). Actually, you only need to do this in one cell on the

row.

In either case, get rid of the hard page breaks. They're rarely anything but
trouble.

 

[Hilary Ostrov]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:29:02 -0800, in
<[email protected]>, "Terri"

[...]

But sometimes she requires that each row of the table
be on its own page. This came up for the first time since
I've been using Word, and I accomplished it by putting my
cursor in each row and hitting Control-Shift to insert a
hard page break.

But my formula result at the bottom right cell of the
table turned into an error message: "Table Index Cannot
Be Zero." I entered the formula and tried again, with the
same results.

CTRL+Shift+Enter will split the table into two tables, and CTRL+Enter
will split the tables *and* insert a hard page break. You don't want
either of these to occur, because any formula you insert will only
work within the table in which it is placed.

[...]

Can you tell me the best way to put each row on a page of
its own? Should I tell Word I want each box to be at
least X inches long, so only one row can fit on each page?

Yes, you need to set the row height. With your cursor in one cell,
select the table, then Table->Table Properties->Row ->Specify Height.

hro