It is our company's client address book with 3 columns per page. It doesn't always keep all lines of each record together - some will spill over into the next column - but I want to keep all lines of each record together. I've tried all the widows/orphans, keep with next, keep lines together stuff under Paragraph but still no luck.
How to stop a table from breaking across two pages in Word?
When inserting a table at the bottom of a page in Word, the table will be broken across two pages very likely as below screenshot shown. Table across pages will be not friendly to read in some cases, for instance printouts, etc. This article will introduce a way to stop a table from breaking across two pages in Word.
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Stop a table from breaking across two pages in Word
If you have a table broken across two pages in your Word document, you can follow below steps to keep the table rows in the same page in Word.
1. Select the table which breaks across two pages, and then click Layout (under Table Tools) > Properties. See screenshot:
2. In the popping out Table Properties dialog box, (1) enable the Row tab, (2) uncheck the Allow row to break across pages option, and (3) click the OK button. See screenshot:
3. Select the table rows, and click the anchor at bottom-right corner of Paragraph group on the Home tab. See screenshot:
4. In the Paragraph dialog box, please (1) enable the Line and Page Breaks tab, (2) check the Keep with next option, and (3) click the OK button. See screenshot:
And now you will see all rows of the table across pages are kept in the same page together as below screenshot shown.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.If this dose not work, use 'none' for text wrapping.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you, very helpful! Solved my problem! :)
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.thanks! It is just what I am looking for
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks! I think it's really weird that this isn't the default setting.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you, really helpful and clear.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.how to make this default though?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi james,
These settings be set as default. However, you can use the Next Across Pages Table feature of Kutools for Word to select all table rows across pages, and then change them together.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Saved my day
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Nailed it!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This was so helpful. Thank you.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This won't work if the table is larger than one page. Or if the keep lines together has continued from the paragraphs before or after. So make sure that the option is not checked for the paragraph before and after the paragraph with the table.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you very much! I fixed my problem :)
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This worked for me! I also used this to keep images and description together. Thanks very much!