"Keep lines together" in tables?

[Eric]

Is there any way to get "Keep lines together" to work in a table?

I'm familiar with the Table Property "Allow row to break across pages" but
that doesn't do what I need. I have text in table cells that may consist of
many small paragraphs. I'm trying to make sure that there's no break within
the paragraph, although I'm wiling to have breaks between pargraphs.

I'm using Word 2003.

Any suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unfortunately, no. Once you allow Word to break a row, it can break it where
it likes. Neither "Keep with next" nor "Keep lines together" has any effect
within a row (though KWN can be used between rows). The reason for this is
that text in cells in the same row might have paragraph breaks at different
points, and keeping one paragraph together might require breaking another.

 

[Eric]

Thanks. That's perfectly logical, now that I think of it. I have puzzled
about it on a number of occasions and wondered "why on earth would Bill Gates
do it this way?" - but I have to reluctantly concede that it makes sense.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I doubt that Billg had any fingers in that pie directly, but I agree
about the logic and the unfortunateness of it!