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Header Way Too Large! Table Problem.
I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word
2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton |
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Header Way Too Large! Table Problem.
I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document
consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message oups.com... I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton |
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Header Way Too Large! Table Problem.
On Jun 30, 8:43 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. For what it's worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. It's only in this one document. -todd |
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Header Way Too Large! Table Problem.
If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likely
corrupt. If you have a version that permits it, click the arrow beside Open and choose Open and Repair. If you don't have that option, then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for other repair techniques. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message ups.com... On Jun 30, 8:43 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. For what it's worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. It's only in this one document. -todd |
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Header way too large. Table Problem
FYI....I just came across this same problem in a document that was sent to me for editing. After a few hours of messing with it, I found that if you go to Table Properties, and under the TABLE tab, select Text Wrapping-None, the header goes back to the top of the page. Better late than never!! Thanks
Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. 29-Jun-07 I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, June 29, 2007 11:03 AM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton On Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:43 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message oups.com... On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:28 PM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. For what it is worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. it is only in this one document. -todd On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:09 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likelycorrupt. If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likely corrupt. If you have a version that permits it, click the arrow beside Open and choose Open and Repair. If you don't have that option, then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for other repair techniques. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message ups.com... document Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice WPF Reflection Effect http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...on-effect.aspx |
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Header way too large. Table Problem
Indeed, there are side-effects when a wrapped table continues across a page break. Note that in some versions wrapped tables are limited to a single page (if you let the table expand, it will disappear into the bottom edge of the page).
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Betty McDonagh wrote in message om... FYI....I just came across this same problem in a document that was sent to me for editing. After a few hours of messing with it, I found that if you go to Table Properties, and under the TABLE tab, select Text Wrapping-None, the header goes back to the top of the page. Better late than never!! Thanks Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. 29-Jun-07 I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, June 29, 2007 11:03 AM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton On Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:43 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message oups.com... On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:28 PM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. For what it is worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. it is only in this one document. -todd On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:09 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likelycorrupt. If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likely corrupt. If you have a version that permits it, click the arrow beside Open and choose Open and Repair. If you don't have that option, then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for other repair techniques. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message ups.com... document Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice WPF Reflection Effect http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...on-effect.aspx |
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Table Way Too Large! Table Problem
FYI...I recently came across this problem also,and after a few hours of messing with it, found that if I went to Table properties under the TABLE tab and selected None under Text wrapping, the header returned to the top of the page. Better late than never! Thanks
Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. 29-Jun-07 I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, June 29, 2007 11:03 AM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton On Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:43 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message oups.com... On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:28 PM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. For what it is worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. it is only in this one document. -todd On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:09 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likelycorrupt. If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likely corrupt. If you have a version that permits it, click the arrow beside Open and choose Open and Repair. If you don't have that option, then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for other repair techniques. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message ups.com... document On Friday, April 16, 2010 9:49 AM Betty McDonagh wrote: Header way too large. Table Problem FYI....I just came across this same problem in a document that was sent to me for editing. After a few hours of messing with it, I found that if you go to Table Properties, and under the TABLE tab, select Text Wrapping-None, the header goes back to the top of the page. Better late than never!! Thanks On Friday, April 16, 2010 10:55 AM Stefan Blom wrote: Indeed, there are side-effects when a wrapped table continues across a page Indeed, there are side-effects when a wrapped table continues across a page break. Note that in some versions wrapped tables are limited to a single page (if you let the table expand, it will disappear into the bottom edge of the page). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Using VSTO Add-In To Automate Frequent Excel 2007 Tasks http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...n-to-auto.aspx |
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Table Way Too Large! Table Problem
Note that you have already posted a similar reply in the "Header way too large. Table Problem" thread, also in this newsgroup.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Betty McDonagh wrote in message news:2010419142155betty.mcdonagh@choosebroadspire. com... FYI...I recently came across this problem also,and after a few hours of messing with it, found that if I went to Table properties under the TABLE tab and selected None under Text wrapping, the header returned to the top of the page. Better late than never! Thanks Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. 29-Jun-07 I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, June 29, 2007 11:03 AM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. I have had an interesting problem with headers and tables in a Word 2003 document. This is the problem, and a workaround fix. In a ~100 page document, there's a long section of table. I want to put headers into this document and so I View - Headers and Footers. When I do this I see that the header is taking up 3/4 of the page! The header is way too big, and extends down all the way to the footer. After much wrangling and teeth-gnashing I figured out that it was the table. The table is one long continuous thing extending over multiple pages. I guess the header doesn't see it as content if it's just continued from the previous page, and so the header goes all the way down. When I put my cursor on the last row of the table on any given page, and then select Table - Split Table, the header rights itself on the next page. This is far from ideal. Now when I add information to the split up tables on any given page it spills over to the next page and I'm stuck with reformatting all over again. And splitting the table on the first page messes up my column headings with overlaid text. (I haven't yet investigated why.) It would be nice if Word were intelligent enough to handle headers in a multi-page continuous table. But I figured I'd post this bit of information. Everything I found online (including in this forum) suggested checking that vertical alignment, in page setup of the header, was set to top and not center. That wasn't relevant to my problem. Check your tables! -- Todd Walton On Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:43 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page I've never had this problem caused by a table (and I have 84-page document consisting entirely of a 3,603-row table), but if your table has only a single row, that could be an issue. If that's the case, it wouldn't be necessary to actually split the table, just divide the content into more rows. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message oups.com... On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:28 PM Todd Walton wrote: Header Way Too Large! Table Problem. For what it is worth, I was unable to replicate the problem. it is only in this one document. -todd On Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:09 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likelycorrupt. If the problem occurs in a single document, then the document is likely corrupt. If you have a version that permits it, click the arrow beside Open and choose Open and Repair. If you don't have that option, then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for other repair techniques. -- 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. "Todd Walton" wrote in message ups.com... document On Friday, April 16, 2010 9:49 AM Betty McDonagh wrote: Header way too large. Table Problem FYI....I just came across this same problem in a document that was sent to me for editing. After a few hours of messing with it, I found that if you go to Table Properties, and under the TABLE tab, select Text Wrapping-None, the header goes back to the top of the page. Better late than never!! Thanks On Friday, April 16, 2010 10:55 AM Stefan Blom wrote: Indeed, there are side-effects when a wrapped table continues across a page Indeed, there are side-effects when a wrapped table continues across a page break. Note that in some versions wrapped tables are limited to a single page (if you let the table expand, it will disappear into the bottom edge of the page). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Using VSTO Add-In To Automate Frequent Excel 2007 Tasks http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...n-to-auto.aspx |
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