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Subject:page breaks in tables-word From:John Hoppe <johnh -at- RADIONICS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:33:47 -0500
Thanks to all who wrote in. Many people knew the answer, but here it is,
for anyone who's ever run into this:
Problem: Paragraphs in table cells break across pages, even creating widows
and orphans, despite any paragraph formatting.
Answer (for Word 6 & 97):
>
>MS chose to hide this option. Under Tables>Cell Height and Width is a
>checkbox "Allow rows to break across pages." Clear this box, and your
>mid-cell page breaks go away. You can select the entire table and apply the
>change, or select a single cell or row to apply the change.
>
This one came from Dick Wollt, richard -dot- wollt -at- unisys -dot- com -dot- Thanks, Dick.
John Hoppe
johnh -at- radionics -dot- com
Technical Writer, Surgical Planning Products
Radionics, Inc.
781-272-1233 x277
