Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)

["Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

<rant>
Every time this sort of thing comes up I read through the messages with 
slack-jawed wonder... are our readers such dolts that they've never 
encountered a two-page table? Why on earth do we need to add "Continued..." 
to the top of each additional page? Do we think they're not going to turn 
the page and that the table having the same headings on both pages is not 
going to clue them in to the concept that there was too much stuff to fit on 
one page? And if our readers are such clueless bowbs are they really the 
target audience we want/need to serve?

Yes, no doubt FrameMaker (and several other tools) will do this sort of 
thing but no matter what tool I'm using I'm not going to bother. And no, I'm 
not picking on Nancy in particular but on the misguided portion of the 
technical writing community that seems to think this sort of thing is worth 
spending time trying to accomplish.
</rant>

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
Subject: Another Word guru question

A question about table headings. I know how to get a table heading row to 
appear on each page, when a table breaks over multiple pages.

My question is this: does Word have an equivalent to the "Continued" 
variable in Framemaker? The one that we use in table titles?

Thanks! You are incredibly helpful and generous, and even though it's Friday 
(and I'm catching a cold and feeling a bit loopy), I sincerely mean this.

--Nancy 

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