unwanted page breaks-tried everything

[lisajmoore]

When my table gets too long for one page I add a manual
page break above the automatic break in the place I want
it. I get another automatic page break right under the
manual one. I've played with breaking in different
places , sometimes the auto break is right under the
manual and sometimes a few lines down, but never in a
place to create a full second page.

I've tried all the suggestions in the help menu and the
suggestions in the previous posts on this subject, "Keep
with next", "allowing rows to break across page", Page
Layout-continuous, etc. I feel like I've tried everything
with no success. I'm beginning to think this is a bug in
Word.

Any advice

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < (e-mail address removed) > écrivait :

|| When my table gets too long for one page I add a manual
|| page break above the automatic break in the place I want
|| it. I get another automatic page break right under the
|| manual one. I've played with breaking in different
|| places , sometimes the auto break is right under the
|| manual and sometimes a few lines down, but never in a
|| place to create a full second page.
||
|| I've tried all the suggestions in the help menu and the
|| suggestions in the previous posts on this subject, "Keep
|| with next", "allowing rows to break across page", Page
|| Layout-continuous, etc. I feel like I've tried everything
|| with no success. I'm beginning to think this is a bug in
|| Word.
||

Have you tried to set the first paragraph that should go at the top of the
following page to "Page break before" (Format > Paragraph) instead of using
the awkward manual page break?
Manual page breaks will also prevent you from using the automatic table
titles (Table > Titles).

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Salut!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Don't insert page breaks at all. Don't even use "Page break before" except
at the beginning of a table if you want it to start on a new page. Make sure
that no rows are formatted as "Keep with next" (that means you may have to
check every paragraph in every cell) and that all rows have permission to
break. This should assure that the table fills every page and flows smoothly
to the next.

None of this will affect text flow around the table. The only way to wrap
text around a table is to make the table wrapped, and wrapped tables cannot
exceed one page in Word 2000 or 2002 (and it's probably a bad idea even in
Word 2003).

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Suzanne S. Barnhill > écrivait :
In this message, < Suzanne S. Barnhill > wrote:

|| Don't insert page breaks at all. Don't even use "Page break before"
except

Why?
I do it often (after the text has been finalized, not during editing) and it
works very well. What are the potential problems?

Just curious!
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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The OP is having trouble getting the table to fill the pages, so I'm trying
to eliminate any factors that would affect text flow.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Suzanne S. Barnhill > écrivait :
In this message, < Suzanne S. Barnhill > wrote:

|| The OP is having trouble getting the table to fill the pages, so I'm
trying
|| to eliminate any factors that would affect text flow.
||

Ah! I missed out on the fact that the OP wanted to fill out the pages with a
table. I thought the only important point was to be able to "break" the
table where desired...

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_______________________________________
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