Short Word table problem

[Harry Bacheler]

Regarding the table placement.  Have the following been considered?

Are you using a 'Caption' for the table?  Is the Caption above the table?

You don't want to have the caption on one page and the table on the next 
page.

Just another 'fly in the ointment' as it were.

Make the decision that the caption can be the determining factor in the 
number of lines to the page.

A table with a caption, header row(s), and only two or three table rows, 
might be best placed on a succeeding page.

Setting the table caption and the table as 'keep with next' will take care 
of a single table.

A decision to have every table have the same attributes will make sure that 
each table in your document will be 'together'.

Then you don't have to worry about looking at every table each time you redo 
the document, especially if you  add/delete rows in one or more table(s) 
over time.

Just reviewing the entire document to view changes to the placement of 
tables is a waste of time.

Just an observation, based on experience.  White space never hurt anyone!

Harry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat at granatedit.com>
To: <techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: Short Word table problem


> If only one row plus the heading appears at the bottom of the page, 
> wouldn't
> a couple of returns do the trick?
>
>
> Bonnie Granat
> http://www.GranatEdit.com
>
>
>> From: Nancy Allison
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
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