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I'm starting a table near the bottom of a page, so I'd rather have the entire table on the next page instead of being broken over two pages (it's not too long to all fit on one page). Is there any way to do that without inserting a manual page break? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill It's best to avoid manual page breaks in documents wherever possible, and luckily this is usually easy to do with paragraph formatting. On the Line and Page Breaks tab of Format Paragraph are the options “Keep with next” and “Keep lines together.” What these two paragraph properties do is keep a given paragraph with the following one (this property is always assigned to Word's built-in heading styles) and keep all the lines of a paragraph together. “Widow/Orphan control,” which by default is set for all paragraphs in Word, prevents a single line of a paragraph from being left alone at the top or bottom of a page. By judicious application of these properties, you can usually manoeuvre Word into putting a page break where you want it. Things work a little differently in tables, however. In a table, the “Keep lines together” and “Widow/Orphan control” properties have no effect at all. In order to keep text in a given row from breaking, you have to clear the check box for “Allow row to break across pages” on the Row tab of the Table | Cell Height and Width dialog. 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. Incidentally, the choice of whether rows are allowed to break or not is strictly an either/or proposition. If you do allow a row to break, it can break anywhere; as mentioned, “Widow/Orphan control” and “Keep lines together” are ignored, so the only way to force it to break only between paragraphs is to make sure each paragraph is in a separate row. |
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