Widow-orphan issue within a table (Word 2000)

[LMN-terry]

I'm using tables with invisible borders to format layout on a page and
am having trouble. If one line - one word even - of a paragraph
within a table cell spills onto the next page, nothing I do seems to
make the paragraph behave as it would were it not in a table.

I am highlighting the paragraph and choosing format : paragraph : line
and page breaks. Then I have tried every combination there is of
checking or unchecking the widow/orphan, keep lines together, keep
with next boxes (I don't want a page break before; I just don't want
one stray line on the next page). Word seemingly ignores this and
doesn't change the format.

The only thing I've been able to do to keep things looking kind of
okay is go to the table menu item and uncheck "allow row to break
across pages" for that row. That's an improvement, but it forces the
whole row down onto the new page.

I don't want that. I want the row to break across a page, but I want
the paragraph of text within it to follow normal widow/orphan rules,
and it's not.

What am I missing?

 

[Richard O. Neville]

Select the entire table by using Alt-Double Click. Then select Table-Cell
Height and Width. Uncheck "Allow row to break across pages" in the Row tab.
This should keep every cell intact on one page. You may have to remove the
"keep with next" instruction from all cells in the last line of each
section.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unfortunately, widow/orphan control and "Keep lines together" are
inoperative in tables. "Keep with next" works only for table rows, not
paragraphs within rows. Once you give Word permission to break a row, you
give it carte blanche to break it anywhere it pleases.