Hi Barbara:
I better understand your problem now.
Last things first: Frames can be linked so that text or tables will
overflow into the succeeding linked frame(s) as needed. You can create
frames that occupy the entire text area on a page or put them side by
side to behave like a multi-column layout. If you anchor the frames to
the page and set Wrapping to None, your tables inside the frame(s)
should no longer be affected by other changes in the sub-document.
There is one caveat when working with Master Documents: According to the
response to issue #50669, there may be a problem if you attempt to
anchor the frames to a page in a subdocument. That specific problem
related to a difficulty I had with an inserted bitmap image, but it may
also apply to frames. Bottom line: anchoring an image (or frame?) to a
page in a subdocument messes up the master document's ability to reflow
the pages. You can read the whole dialog here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50669
Good luck and let us know if any of these ideas help.
--
DougT
Barbara Duprey wrote:
Thanks for responding, Doug. The break is not consistent from one time
to another, and I'm pretty sure there's no pattern for how much extra
space it leaves on the page(s) that break prematurely. I haven't been
able to pin down any actions that cause the split, but I generally see
it after I've done a bunch of editing on other parts of the file (but I
think once the table is reassembled, it stays together the rest of that
session).
The table definitely has to be allowed to split across pages, because
altogether it's about 20 inches deep. If I split it into multiple
tables, I'd have to keep readjusting them to fit neatly on the pages, or
leave the document messed up until I'm ready to finalize it. The
reassembled table breaks fine. Since I don't have much text, I might be
able to avoid breaks by making it four columns instead of two, or doing
something with page styles to make this part of the document be two
print columns. Haven't tried that yet, so I'm not exactly sure how to do
it.
I haven't played with frames at all yet (I'm a new user). Do they flow
properly across page boundaries?
No imports happening here, the document has been an .odt from the
beginning (although it has been pulled out of a larger document that I
turned into a master -- the table is since that time, though).
----- Original Message ----- From: "DougT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Page Breaks in Table
Barbara Duprey wrote:
I'm using OOo 2.0.4, mainly Writer, and I like it a lot. I'm having a
problem with one of my tables, though. Writer keeps breaking it
across pages for no reason I can detect, generally making one or more
internal pages with only one or two rows. The table has about 20
two-column rows, with the first column containing a graphic (about an
inch tall) and the second column containing a short line of text.
I've tried changing the graphic anchor from "to paragraph" to "as
character," but the table still breaks strangely. It seems to be
related to not having text in the first column, because if I add and
delete a blank anywhere in the first column (but not the second), the
table reassembles for a while. The premature breaks show in Print
Preview, also. Any clues? Am I going to have to add text I really
don't want?
Does the table break consistently or does the position of the break
change? If it changes, what action provokes the change?
Have you verified in the menu > Table | Table Properties | Text Flow
that the box "Allow tables to split across pages and columns" box is
unchecked? (You can also get to the Table Properties from the Tables
Toolbar when you have it set to Viewable.
Have you tried inserting the table in a suitably sized frame?
The only other notion I have is that perhaps you imported this
document from a Redmondian application and there is something that got
fouled in the conversion.
Happy New Year,
DougT
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