On 12/15/2010 12:43 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
Barbara Duprey [mailto:[email protected]] replied to my query:
If I'm reading this right, your table is insisting on
beginning at the start of a page. Have you
checked the table's Text Flow properties to make sure that
the Break-Page-Before options are not set?
The box labelled "Break" is empty (intentionally, for exactly
this reason - although that's the default setting anyway),
so the four selectable options are grayed-out.
HOWEVER, the "Page" and "Before" options (even though
supposedly inactive) do have selection dots in them.
It's not possible to empty the selection dots without
filling the other two. Essentially, the designer of
table behavior seems to be asserting "I will cause
a break. You can select which break, but you can't
select no break. I know what's good for you, better
than you do." Leads me to assume the person is/was
a Microsoft employee.... :-)
[Little bit of frustrated editorializing there.]
Interesting -- this is not true for me (Win7, OOo 3.1.1) -- the dots are filled but grayed out when
the Break box is empty, which is fair enough, since a radio control is "one of these" rather than
"zero or one of these." They have no functional effect, because they are only evaluated
conditionally on the Break being selected.
Have you tried defining a new table immediately after the prefatory text, then copying in the data
and setting the rest of the properties you want, then deleting the original table? (Not selecting
and copying the whole table, if there's something weird about the table definition it might carry
forward.)
I have tried checking "Break" and then selecting
"Page" "After" - no change.
Well, the break does occur after the table, pushing
the table footnote to the next page, but the change
in properties has no effect on the _start_ of the table.
I also tried "Column" "After", just to ensure that
"Page" was not selected, and not for any desire to
affect the column... again, no affect on page break
before the table.
If I then un-check the "Break" box, the options become
gray, as-is... but later (after I close and re-open
the document) they are back to the 'defaults' that
they originally had.
<snip>
It sounds as if the property that's saved is the Break setting only, not the subordinate radio
button ones, which may be strange but shouldn't really matter.
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