I copied a table from one word document to another. For some reason, this table is formatted to fit onto a single page so as I add rows to the table, the table actually goes off the page. In addition, I cannot add anything else to the page with the table on it, like a table title. I’ve checked all the various table properties settings and I’m not seeing anything that might be causing this. According to MS Word Help, removing the text wrapping should fix the problem but it didn’t work for my table.
Any suggestions as to how I can get this table to distribute over more than one page?
If you know where you want it to break, position your cursor there and use Table–>Split Table. This will keep the same split point though, even if you add more rows to the first page, etc.
As far as being able to write before the table, put in a few returns before you paste in the table and this should leave room for other text.
**gigi ** acknowledges that this solution is just a workaround.
stuyguy’s solution works for individual rows but the problem in the OP is that the table won’t even break *between * rows.
This sounds either like some real oddball option setting, or a corrupted file. I have never seen a table that insists on running off the bottom of the same page rather than flowing into the next page.
I would be happy to take a look at it if you email a copy of it to me at my username at seigle.net
CWG is correct that my suggestion is not the perfect solution, although you can highlight all the rows and change them all to have the **Break Across Pages ** property. That might get the table to break, though, granted, not exactly in the way the OP sought.
I think I’ve encountered the OP’s problem before myself. It happens when C&Ping a table into a new/different document. Sometimes the new doc does not have the same Page Setup properties as the old doc, and the table will blow past the new doc’s margins. I think I’ve solved the problem by shrinking the table to fit the new doc. Once the table is inside the new doc’ margins it will behave. You can enlarge the table to the size you want it and it will break and conform. I think that’s how I fixed it.
There must have been a problem with the document that I was pasting into. I was going to take CookingWithGas up on his/her offer (thank you!) so I pasted my table into a separate, new document and voila - no problems. I then pasted it into the document where it needs to be and everything seems to be working. I compared the table properties of the one that’s working and the one that is giving me problems and I still do not see what might have caused the issue.
