At 01:09 16/08/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
1. I am using 8.5"x11" paper with 1" borders.
2. I create a table and set the row height to 9" so the table will
include the whole writing area of the page.
3. Since I want center the text in the page I rightclick inside the
table and select Cell > Center.
4. Now I create a second table inside the first one.
5. Since I want to do this on several pages, I click inside the
first table just under the small one and click Table > Select >
Table. The whole full page table is selected.
6. I click Ctrl+C to copy the table.
7. I click at the beginning of the second page and press Ctrl+v
expecting to copy the page 1 table to page 2.
8. The result however is that the page 1 table is pasted on page 3,
while page 2 is blank.
9. I can see no way of deleting page 2 or the page break that should
be somewhere between the 2 full-page tables.
10. How can I delete page 2 so that the table of page 3 will be
immediately after that of page 1 without gap? Or, better still, how
can I paste the table on page 2 directly?
If you go to View | Nonprinting Characters, I think you will see what
is happening. It appears that you cannot have a table or tables as
the last item in your document: there has to be some text after, so
your single table will be followed by an empty text area, witnessed
by the trailing paragraph mark that you will now see. Since your
table fills the page, this text appears on the next page. Indeed, it
is only because of this that the second page exists before you try to
paste your table into it.
When you paste your table, it cannot fit into page 2 along with the
rogue empty paragraph, so it flows onto page 3. (There is no
explicit page break.) After you have pasted your table, just put the
cursor into page 2 and press Delete: this deletes the empty paragraph
and should bring your second table back to page 2.
If your document consists only of these tables, you will still be
left with a trailing blank page. I don't know any way to suppress
this, only to hide it. In your case, a simple solution would be to
reduce the bottom page margin slightly, so as to make room for the
rogue element. Your table can retain the size and position that you
intend, so the final printout is unaffected. You can reduce the
height of the empty paragraph by reducing the size of its
(non-existent) text - to as little as 2 points, in fact. You could
do this just for the last page or for all pages, in fact.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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