SITUATION: Small document includes some two-column, multi-row tables that break over several pages. Two or three rows of a table might fit per page. Left column is skinny and contains only a step number. Right column is wide and has two content paragraphs per cell. The first one is a holder for an image. The second paragraph has a few words of text as an image caption or an instruction to go with the picture just above it in the same cell. And repeat, row by row.
Mostly it's OK. The imported picture comes in at whatever size fits the cell, and I then leave it alone or perhaps resize a bit smaller. Sometimes, when I insert a new row, or just import a different image to replace one in an existing cell, the current cell content then appears to slide over top of the cell below, like a layer (or a shingle on a roof). That is, I'll have the current cell/row looking mostly proper and fine with its new picture, but the cell below will show just its text. The image in the lower cell is now overlaid by the content of the upper cell. I can cause the lower cell's content to reassert by reducing the size of the image in the upper cell... which is what I've been doing as a solution. However, sometimes this requires me to make it smaller than desired before the two cells sort themselves. I tried refreshing the view, moving to other pages and returning, etc., but the overlap persists until I resize the image in the upper cell. USUALLY, the correct new arrangement involves a new split in the table, with either the overlaid cell or one below it being bumped to the next page. What's going on, and what _should_ I be doing? OTHER SITUATION I'm still working this document, so I add, subtract, and reposition text and other elements, both inside and outside of tables. This causes tables to reflow and to break in different places as I work. I don't mind if a table breaks to leave a single final row on a new page (orphan?), but I don't want the lonely row to be the _first_ row in a table. I especially don't want the heading row to be a widow in the middle of a page, with the first content row appearing at the top of the next page. I can fix this by inserting pagebreaks or just stuffing in a bunch of blank lines before a table to ensure that it starts correctly, but I wonder if there's a setting that would KEEP the heading row WITH the first content row. In case it matters, in no case does a row span more than one page (that is, no cell breaks internally - all breaks occur between rows). Generally two or three rows fit on a page and the tables are mostly breaking over three or four pages. Is there a "keep with" setting to force the Heading row to not break from the first content row? (If it's in Table Properties, it's not obvious to me.) I don't want to constrain the automatic breaking behavior of the other rows, just the heading and the first content row should move together. What's the best approach? Thanks for your time. - Kevin (in Ottawa, Canada, where it's snowing steadily and it's not even officially Winter, yet) The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
