Prevent Table Rows From Breaking Across Pages In Word
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Word automatically inserts a page break when you reach the end of a page so you can continue onto the next page. However, what if you are working on a table and reach the end of the page? Word will insert the page break and move to the next page but this will likely result in a table row breaking across pages.
You can prevent Word 2007 from splitting up a table row using the steps described below.
- Select the appropriate table.
- From the Table menu, click Table Properties.
- Click the Row tab.
- Clear the Allow row to break across pages option.
Now Word will prevent a page break from disrupting a row in the selected table.
[tags]word, microsoft office, document, doc[/tags]
3 Comments
Paul Higgins
September 23rd, 2007
at 4:59pm
Sounds good, but what happens when you come to print? Will word ‘understand’ and adjust the layout automatically, or do we need to ‘juggle’ it a bit?
Sandia
January 14th, 2008
at 12:16pm
Is there a way to change this permanently so that it never happens? I have hundreds of tables that I want to paste into a Word document. It would take a very long time for me to repeat these steps with each one. Isn’t there somewhere in the options this can be changed? Thanks!
Regina
February 10th, 2008
at 11:02am
How do you set an entire table to make sure that all rows never break across a page — even when the file is saved and re-opened?? I set it through table properties — I tried both right-clicking on the particular rows and setting each and then I tried through the Table Properties in the Tables Table menu at the top. I saved the document using both ways — but when I re-open the document the rows break across pages and the box is re-checked… This was done in the 2003 compatibility mode… Okay, I just tried something else — I selected the whole table, unchecked the box thru top Tables menu… saved… and it seems to be working… but how do I do it from the beginning while creating the table??