Short Word table problem

[Allan Ackerson]

"Keep with next" works with table cells, too.  If your table is four rows 
and one rolls to the next page, then marking the first three "keep with 
next" will glue them together and roll them to the next page.

Cheers!
Al


>From: Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net>
>To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
>Subject: Short Word table problem
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:33:38 -0600 (CST)
>
>Please note: This does NOT have to do with the "Allow row to break across 
>pages" command in the row tab of the Table Properties window. That option 
>will not solve this problem.
>
>OK, read on:
>
>I have a document that uses a lot of tables. Because some of the data 
>messages it documents are short, some tables have only 3 or 4 rows.
>
>Therefore, some pages contain several tables, and the final table may split 
>with, say, one row at the bottom of one page and three at the top of the 
>following page. I would prefer to keep these short tables intact and have 
>them jump to the top of the following page.
>
>In other words, I'm looking for widow and orphan control for table rows. 
>The "allow row to break across pages" option simply controls whether a deep 
>row is permitted to break. It doesn't control whether Word breaks a table 
>*between* rows, which is what I'm trying to prevent.
>
>As always, I'm trying to avoid putting in manual page breaks. I can select 
>"Keep with next" for the preceding paragraphs, but I can't control Word's 
>splitting the table.
>
>Unless I can, because one of you Word gurus out there knows what I should 
>do. Any suggestions?
>
>--Nancy
>
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