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Linked text boxes containing tables
Hi,
I'm using Word 2000, and I have two linked text boxes. I find that if I have a table as part of the content of the text box, then it doesn't flow properly from one text box to the next (rather than being moved wholesale to the next text box, it gets clipped). To be fair, the help file does hint at this behaviour. Does anyone know of a work-around? How can I make the table act more like an indivisible object, so that it goes into the second text box as soon as it gets pushed out of the first text box? Failing that, does anyone know how to detect when this has happened, so that I can do something in VBA to push the table onto the next text box (perhaps by inserting paragraphs before it)? Gary |
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Linked text boxes containing tables
Hi Gary,
Perhaps someone will post a macro to push the whole table to the next text box if it doesn't completely fit in the first text box. But perhaps it might be better and simpler to fit as many rows as possible in the first box, and then continue in the second box? Maybe you could split the table after each row, and format the paragraph marks between rows (= tables) as "hidden". That should allow them to "flow" into the second text box. Regards, Klaus "Gary McGill" wrote: Hi, I'm using Word 2000, and I have two linked text boxes. I find that if I have a table as part of the content of the text box, then it doesn't flow properly from one text box to the next (rather than being moved wholesale to the next text box, it gets clipped). To be fair, the help file does hint at this behaviour. Does anyone know of a work-around? How can I make the table act more like an indivisible object, so that it goes into the second text box as soon as it gets pushed out of the first text box? Failing that, does anyone know how to detect when this has happened, so that I can do something in VBA to push the table onto the next text box (perhaps by inserting paragraphs before it)? Gary |
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Linked text boxes containing tables
Thanks, Klaus - that's an interesting idea, but for my purposes I need the
whole table to be treated as as an indivisible object that's either on one page or the other :-( "Klaus Linke" wrote But perhaps it might be better and simpler to fit as many rows as possible in the first box, and then continue in the second box? Maybe you could split the table after each row, and format the paragraph marks between rows (= tables) as "hidden". That should allow them to "flow" into the second text box. |
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Linked text boxes containing tables
What happens if you select all rows but the last and format them as "Keep
with next"? -- 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. "Gary McGill" wrote in message ... Thanks, Klaus - that's an interesting idea, but for my purposes I need the whole table to be treated as as an indivisible object that's either on one page or the other :-( "Klaus Linke" wrote But perhaps it might be better and simpler to fit as many rows as possible in the first box, and then continue in the second box? Maybe you could split the table after each row, and format the paragraph marks between rows (= tables) as "hidden". That should allow them to "flow" into the second text box. |
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