automatic "continued" in multi-page tables?

Does anyone know how to have long tables (more than one
page) automatically insert "continued" at the bottom of
the table and at the beginning of the table on the next
page?

There is no automatic way to do this. There is not even a very good manual
way to do this. There is, in fact, no practical way to do the first part at
all. The most practical suggestion I've heard for the latter part is as
follows:

1. Add the words "continued" (along with any desired punctuation) to the
title in the repeating heading row.

2. Use a text box or AutoShape (with no line and white fill) anchored
*outside* the heading row as "electronic whiteout" to cover up the
"continued" notice on the first page.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"HDC" wrote in message
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Does anyone know how to have long tables (more than one
page) automatically insert "continued" at the bottom of
the table and at the beginning of the table on the next
page?

Suzanne,

What a gem! I can't tell you how many useless hours I've spent in the past
racking my brains for some fancy way to do this. Can't believe I never
thought of whiting it out, but I guess I was too busy thinking in terms of
nested fields and such. This is one of the few advantages that I saw in
WordPerfect over Word - it was easy to include things like "Continued" or
"Sheet X of Y" in the headers of tables.

Regards,
Chad DeMeyer


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
There is no automatic way to do this. There is not even a very good manual
way to do this. There is, in fact, no practical way to do the first part
at
all. The most practical suggestion I've heard for the latter part is as
follows:

1. Add the words "continued" (along with any desired punctuation) to the
title in the repeating heading row.

2. Use a text box or AutoShape (with no line and white fill) anchored
*outside* the heading row as "electronic whiteout" to cover up the
"continued" notice on the first page.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"HDC" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to have long tables (more than one
page) automatically insert "continued" at the bottom of
the table and at the beginning of the table on the next
page?

Not my invention. I think it was Terry Farrell who first proposed it, but
I've seen Doug Robbins quoting it recently, too, so perhaps it was his idea
originally.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Chad DeMeyer" wrote in message
...
Suzanne,

What a gem! I can't tell you how many useless hours I've spent in the
past
racking my brains for some fancy way to do this. Can't believe I never
thought of whiting it out, but I guess I was too busy thinking in terms of
nested fields and such. This is one of the few advantages that I saw in
WordPerfect over Word - it was easy to include things like "Continued" or
"Sheet X of Y" in the headers of tables.

Regards,
Chad DeMeyer


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
There is no automatic way to do this. There is not even a very good
manual
way to do this. There is, in fact, no practical way to do the first part
at
all. The most practical suggestion I've heard for the latter part is as
follows:

1. Add the words "continued" (along with any desired punctuation) to the
title in the repeating heading row.

2. Use a text box or AutoShape (with no line and white fill) anchored
*outside* the heading row as "electronic whiteout" to cover up the
"continued" notice on the first page.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"HDC" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to have long tables (more than one
page) automatically insert "continued" at the bottom of
the table and at the beginning of the table on the next
page?

I've added this to my Tables page as:
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/tables.htm#Continued
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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There is no automatic way to do this. There is not even a very good manual
way to do this. There is, in fact, no practical way to do the first part
at
all. The most practical suggestion I've heard for the latter part is as
follows:

1. Add the words "continued" (along with any desired punctuation) to the
title in the repeating heading row.

2. Use a text box or AutoShape (with no line and white fill) anchored
*outside* the heading row as "electronic whiteout" to cover up the
"continued" notice on the first page.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"HDC" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to have long tables (more than one
page) automatically insert "continued" at the bottom of
the table and at the beginning of the table on the next
page?