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Subject:Re: Page breaks in tables problem (Word) From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:34:09 -0600
In our previous episode, John Hoppe said:
> Hi all:
>
> I couldn't find any answers to this in the archives, so...
>
>
> How can I stop paragraphs within table cells breaking across pages? I have
> several different paragraphs in different table cells that don't stay
> together, even though I have the "Keep lines together" option turned on in
> the paragraph format dialog. One of them breaks so that the last line of
> the paragraph becomes an orphan on the next page (I also have "Widow/Orphan
> control" turned on, but it doesn't help.)
>
> I'm using Word 6.0 on a Mac PowerPC.
>
> Ideas? Is there some separate tables line spacing dialog box I should know
> about?
Two suggestions:
1. Do you have the "Keep With Next" as well as "Keep Lines Together"
attribute selected for a bunch of sequential paragraphs? If so, drop
the Keep With Next, and that should help the line break situation.
2. There's always the brute force approach: Go to Table|Cell Height
and Width and uncheck the Allow Row to Break Across Pages option. And
then make sure you have enough rows to allow for decent breaks.
Good luck!
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