Word table won't break across pages

[cynjazz]

How to you make a table break across pages? I don't want to split the table;
I want it to break automatically.

 

[tyectk]

the best results i've had is to create the table in excel. the table breaks
just before the footer area to scroll to the next page.

good luck!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm and (for
the reverse) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/KeepTableOn1Page.htm

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

While I cannot reproduce it with a new table, I came across one to-day that
would not break across a page. It was centre aligned and the Text wrapping
was set to around. Setting the Text wrapping to none, caused in to break
normally. If it was left at "Around" or put back there, inserting rows into
the table resulted in the top and bottom rows just disappearing off the top
and the bottom of the page respectively.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Wrapped tables cannot break across pages except in Word 2003, where there is
a Compatibility Option to allow it.

 

[dreuby]

I'm having a similar problem, and none of these fixes have worked. I'm using
Office XP.

I'm creating minutes, and what I want is a narrow column on the right for
initials so that people can see quickly any items that relate to them. I've
been doing this with a table, one row of two columns, which goes to two or
three pages. I start with three "normal" paras, not in the table, giving
apologies etc, across the whole width of the doc, and then have a the
two-column table. After I've entered enough paras into the table to fill page
one, the table then moves to the top of page two, leaving the rest of page
one blank. I've tried splitting the table into several rows, splitting the
table, and I've tried all the fixes that have been suggested.

Is there another way of getting the layout that I'd like?

TIA,
Dianne Reuby

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It seems very likely that you have one of these problems:

1. The table has become wrapped. If you are working in Print Layout view (as
most people do), it is very easy to accidentally nudge the table handle,
which results in the table being wrapped. Wrapped tables can't be broken
across pages. Go to the Table tab of Table Properties and make sure wrapping
is set to None.

2. The table has "Keep with next" formatting. This formatting in a
single-row table will cause the table to stay with the following text.
Unless you have checked "Allow rows to break across pages" on the Row tab of
Table Properties, the whole table will move (this box is checked by default,
however). In a multi-row table it will cause rows to stay together, though
again they should break internally if allowed.

 

[dreuby]

Thanks - although I'd got those options set OK, when I highlighted the
entire document (including paras outside the table) and checked format >
paragraphs, the "keep with next" option was checked. Removing this solved the
problem.

Thanks for your help

Dianne Reuby