I'm out of ideas....I have a several page document with tables in it....the problem is getting the rows to continuously run on the page, allow row to break across tables is checked on the entire document. There will be two rows on one page (that only take up 1/3 of the page), then it skips to the next page with the rest of the rows. I tried looking at the formatting to see if there is a paragraph or page break, there is none. I'm about to pull my hair out, please help! I'd be happy to e-mail it to who ever would like to check it out. Thanks!
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
table trouble
- Thread starter shanona1
- Start date
BlueHorizon
Instructor
Hi shanona1,
Try looking in File | Page Setup | Layout and make sure that the Vertical alignment is "top".
HTH,
Best,
Blue Horizon![[2thumbsup]](/data/assets/smilies/2thumbsup.gif "[2thumbsup] [2thumbsup]")
Try looking in File | Page Setup | Layout and make sure that the Vertical alignment is "top".
HTH,
Best,
Blue Horizon
- Thread starter
- #3
Hi there. Got the file, and have fixed it and returned it to you. However, as this is a public forum, everyone else deserves to find out what happened. For those you know me here...yeah....same old rant. Although I do have other comments. Ready?
1. Please ZIP files when sending them. It is better for everyone. Thanks.
2. Ahem..........use Styles. You simply would not have this problem if a consistent use of styles was set up and adhered to. I know, I know, I know, I go on about this often, but that is because it is true.
Word is DESIGNED to use styles. In fact, you can not use Word without them. Period. If you do not think you are, you are wrong. In later versions it is easy to see this as later versions do this stupid listing of manually formatted styles in the style drop down. Personally I think this was a really dumb idea by Microsoft. However, on the other hand it DOES demonstrate the poor design of doing maul formats. It lists all of them.
In your document, there are literally dozens of versions of the Heading 1 style.
Bad, bad, bad.
The problem with the spaces and weirdness of the tables rows was this:
SOME of the paragraphs has Keep with next - this, well, keeps thisparagraph text with the next paragraph. makes sense.....BUT
SOME of the paragraphs did not have Keep with next.
So...................they didn't.
If you made and used a proper style...oh, I don't know, call it TableMainText, then...ALL paragraph that used that style are ALL the same. Which is what you want.
3. There was inconsistent design as well. Some of the text in the first column had 0 indent, and some did not. This did not cause bumps between rows, but it is inconsistent. I did not fix these. Hey, it is not my document, and not my problem. I did fix the gap issue between rows though.
Bottom line? USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES!
Gerry
1. Please ZIP files when sending them. It is better for everyone. Thanks.
2. Ahem..........use Styles. You simply would not have this problem if a consistent use of styles was set up and adhered to. I know, I know, I know, I go on about this often, but that is because it is true.
Word is DESIGNED to use styles. In fact, you can not use Word without them. Period. If you do not think you are, you are wrong. In later versions it is easy to see this as later versions do this stupid listing of manually formatted styles in the style drop down. Personally I think this was a really dumb idea by Microsoft. However, on the other hand it DOES demonstrate the poor design of doing maul formats. It lists all of them.
In your document, there are literally dozens of versions of the Heading 1 style.
Bad, bad, bad.
The problem with the spaces and weirdness of the tables rows was this:
SOME of the paragraphs has Keep with next - this, well, keeps thisparagraph text with the next paragraph. makes sense.....BUT
SOME of the paragraphs did not have Keep with next.
So...................they didn't.
If you made and used a proper style...oh, I don't know, call it TableMainText, then...ALL paragraph that used that style are ALL the same. Which is what you want.
3. There was inconsistent design as well. Some of the text in the first column had 0 indent, and some did not. This did not cause bumps between rows, but it is inconsistent. I did not fix these. Hey, it is not my document, and not my problem. I did fix the gap issue between rows though.
Bottom line? USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES! USE STYLES!
Gerry
- Status