At 11:07 29/01/2009 -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
Ooo 3.0.1 on Windows XP Pro X64.
What's the setting to tell a table to keep its heading row on the
same page as the first row of the table?
I'm no expert in this, and I'm still on 3.0.
I just edited my document, causing text to re-flow, and the first
row of my table jumped to a new page, but the heading is still
sitting behind, looking stupid and alone in the middle of the
previous page, with a big white-space gap below it.
Repeating table heading rows are turned off, because my cells are
big (pictures) and my pages are small, so I'm already pressed for
space. I tried modifying the Text Flow settings of "Table Heading"
style to "Keep with Next", but that had no effect.
Is your table heading a real one - created by ticking Heading in the
Insert Table dialogue - or just the first row of your table? I think
this matters.
It happens that the first two content rows of my table fit nicely on
the next page... with enough unused space for... oh... say...
perhaps a nice heading row??
There are two settings that seem to affect this for me:
o Table | Table Properties... | Text Flow | Allow table to split
across pages and columns. (Remove tick.)
o Table | Table Properties... | Text Flow | Keep with next
paragraph. (Tick box.)
The second setting seems to be intended to affect the way the entire
table and the following text paragraph are treated, but -
surprisingly - it does seem to influence what you are seeing.
Of course, a crude workaround is to add a manual page break before
the table or even to set an automatic page break before (on the Text
Flow tab, as above), if appropriate.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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