Brian Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested: > > At 13:17 09/12/2008 -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > >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 page > >breaks 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. > > Have you tried going to Table | Table Properties... | Text Flow | > Text Flow (or right-click | Table... | Text Flow | Text Flow) and > ticking "Keep with next paragraph"?
Yes, thanks. I tried that early-on and it caused other problems. The doc is small-format, and most of the cells in these tables are large, so it's been tricky to get them at least two per page while keeping the contained images large enough to be useful. Switching on "Keep with next paragraph" caused a general reflow where several cells break over two pages, usually stranding a line or two of text at the top of the next page, with the graphic left behind. Basically, what that does is to move my problem from the beginning of the table to the middle of the table Maybe I should have said what I want to accomplish in general - there might be an entirely different approach that would suffice. I'm setting out a series of instructions, each with either just a sentence-or-two of text (the minority) or a sentence-or-two of text plus a picture or a screen-capture to illustrate the step (this is the majority situation). I happen to like the visual boundary that a table cell provides, to contain each step. I want each step to be complete on a page. Two, or more, steps per page is fine, but two-and-a-half or three-and-a-quarter steps per page are not. I don't want to just force a single step per page, because: - it's supposed to be a small document - can't have the page-count skyrocketing - some steps are physically small and would be quite lonely on their own private pages.... lotsa wasted real estate there, and the separation would diminish the visual cohesiveness of a multi-step procedure. If there's a better approach, I'm more than happy to consider it. I've done lots of documents in FrameMaker and Word, but all my use of OOo, so far, has been to import and update pre-existing docs. This is the first one that I'm doing from scratch. In other words, I've been exposed to only a limited corner of the OOo possibilities and repertoire, and lack the context to think of alternate approaches that might make more sense, considering the strengths of the tool. Thank you. - Kevin 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]
