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June 3, 2005 at 07:19 AM
blackcurrant

Table cells in Word to span pages

by blackcurrant . Updated 21 years, 4 months ago

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I may force the text in a cell to span more than one page.

I have a member of staff who has created a table in Word 2000 on a landscape orientated page. One of the cells contains text that extends beyond the bottom of the page. The table is constructed as follows: Two rows, eight columns. First row is a header row and each landscape page contains two tables. It is just this one table that extends beyond the bottom of the page.

However, what is happening is that the text that should(!) be appearing on the next page is hidden in the original cell. If left to its own devices, Word automatically forces the second row to appear on the next page, leaving a huge gap which looks ridiculous. If I use the Autofit>Autofit to contents command, the cell is brought back onto the page, but then the extra text is hidden.

Can anyone tell em how I may make the hidden text appear on the next page. It seems that although a table can span several pages, cells cannot. Is this what is happening?

When I bring up Table Properties, the option to allow the row to break across pages is greyed out.

I really, really look forward to some fast answers on this one…

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