Chuck has some long tables in his documents, and he would like the table caption to be different for the second and subsequent pages on which the table occurs. For instance, he would like to have the caption on the first page of the table be something like "Table 1 Results" and for the other pages be something like "Table 1 Results (continued)".
The short answer is that Word doesn't allow you to have different captions when the table extends to multiple pages. One obvious solution is to break your table into two—one part for the first page and another for subsequent pages. You could then add multiple captions for the tables. This will only work if your page layout is static (you won't be adding any more text before the table). It can also mess up any "table of tables" that you may add to your document, as you would have two captions for what is essentially the same table.
Another possible workaround is to follow these general steps:
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2014-06-04 05:18:59
Simon A Watts
The document style standard I am currently working with specifies that captions for tables should be above their table. I can then place the caption in a borderless header row so that it is repeated when the table spans multiple pages.
So, the next step is to have "(continued)" appended to the title for each repeated occurance. What I need is some autotext which evalutates to empty if the current page equals the page where the caption is defined, and "(continued)" otherwise.
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