Table on Top of Page

  • Thread starter Marcel Dijkstra
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Marcel Dijkstra

Can anybody tell me how to start a new page with a table if the new page is
created by a manual page break (Ctrl+Enter). I always seem to get a white
line before the table starts. The only way which seem to work is to manually
enter a lot of white lines between the table and the last line of text on the
previous page. With enough white lines entered, the table jumps to the next
page, without the white line on top. But this should be possible with a
manual page break? Why is this so difficult?

Regards,
Marcel Dijkstra
 
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Greg Maxey

Marcel,

I don't know the technical reason why this is problematic. I suspect that a
PageBreak is not capable of holding a table object so a new paragraph (which
is) is created. You can work around it by inserting your table on the
current page and then formatting the first parargraph of the table with a
Page Break Before (Format>Paragraph>Lines and Breaks).

or you could insert a default table with a macro:

Sub ScratchMacro()
Dim oTbl As Table
Set oTbl = Selection.Tables.Add(Selection.Range, 2, 5, True)
oTbl.Cell(1, 1).Range.ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore = True
End Sub
 
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Guest

Inert the table as usual on the current page and then add PageBreakBefore
format to the first cell of the table.
 
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PamC via OfficeKB.com

In W2007, when you insert a manual page break before a table, Word inserts
two returns after the break. You can delete one of them.

PamC

Inert the table as usual on the current page and then add PageBreakBefore
format to the first cell of the table.
Can anybody tell me how to start a new page with a table if the new page
is
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Regards,
Marcel Dijkstra
 
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denbaranov

Thank you very much! I just spent a good 30 minutes battling page
breaks and tables. This is the best advice I've seen in a while!
 

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