Table breaks accross two pages - even though it is instructed not

[Guest]

Word 2003

My tables are small - 5x9. They don't take more than a half of the page. As
I type the text in the document, the table eventually decides to move one (or
more) rows on the next page.


This is happening even though the document is instructed not to do so:
Table - Table Properties - Row - (deselected) Allow row to break across pages


What am I missing here?
How to force table not to break the stuff over the page break?

thanks ...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/KeepTableOn1Page.htm (and make
sure the *last* row is not formatted as KWN).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Suzanne,

that is it. Without this help, I would never be able to resolve this issue -
never! The Word available options for configuring Table behaviour is not
intutitive at all.

This is the part of your document that resolved the problem.
So to keep a table in one piece, select the entire table, clear this check
box; then select every row in the table except the last, and check the box
for “Keep with next†on the Line and Page Breaks tab of Format Paragraph.

Thanks!
Bosko

 

[Guest]

This is a poor solution. It may work fine for tables with a fixed number of
rows. But when you have a table tied to a database, the number of lines can
vary when you refresh.

If the the number of rows increases after an update, the new rows adopt the
formatting on the last line, which does not have the "Keep With Next" tag.

If the number of rows decrease after a database update, the formatting on
the unique last row is lost and all take on the "Keep With Next" tag.

My suggestion is that tables need their own special set of formatting
commands, so that it is a bit more intuitive and so that it works properly
without extra intervention for users that try to link to databases (a very
powerful feature BTW).