What some people do is use the page header. This requires that you put the
table is a separate section, but that may be worthwhile if the table is
several pages long. Naturally you do repeat the heading rows on every page,
just not the caption (unless in a header).

If you do use the section approach, format it as "Different first page" and
either leave the First Page Header blank (aside from any page number or
other text that would be there anyway) or put the caption in it (without the
"continued" part). Put the "continued" caption in the Header.

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"Allan TFF" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the detailed response, Susan.

Taking up your suggestion to rethink this: The document I'm working on
will
be viewed by almost all its users in hard copy. The idea is that, on
opening
the document, at a glance some sort of header would immediately tell you
what
you're looking at.

If repeating the table header is a clumsy solution, what others might be
possible?

Your point about the TOC is well taken.


"Allan TFF" wrote:

I'm working in a long table that runs over many pages. I know how to
repeat
the row headings at the top of each page, but I'd like to repeat the
table
name (which is in the first row of the table, so that's easy enough)
PLUS the
word 'Continued' on each new page that the table spills onto. Is there a
simple way to acheive this?
And then... how I can I mark the resultant 'This table continued'so
that
it's in my Table of Contents?
Allan