Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: How to Stop a Table Row from Splitting Over Two Pages.
For some documents, it is par for the course to have tables extend from one page to another. As your tables get larger, Word automatically breaks tables so the most information can get on each page. This may mean that a row of your table may start on one page and end on the following page. Obviously, this is not acceptable for some tables. You may have the need to make sure that entire rows of your table stay together.
To make sure that Word doesn't break a particular row of your table, follow these steps if you are using Word 97:
If you are using Word 2000, Word 2002, or Word 2003 the process is slightly different. Follow these steps, instead:
Figure 1. The Row tab of the Table Properties dialog box.
If you are not sure about where a table may break (or even if it will), but you want to make sure that no row of the table is divided, you simply need to select the entire table in step 1 rather than selecting a single row.
Remember that these steps won't stop a table from splitting across two pages; it only stops individual rows from splitting across pages.
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2021-02-17 10:01:32
Hareem Gillani
I have done this step over 10 times, but I am not able to get it right. I cleared the "Allow rows to break across pages" but it still doesn't seem to work. I am completing my Cambridge CIEs past papers of ICT and I am not able to do it. Hope you could guide me through it.
2020-11-01 16:27:42
This doesn't work entirely, you may have to turn on the Paragraph setting called "Keep with Next" to keep the rows together and not split up.
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