word 2010 table headers and 'do not allow rows to break across pages' not working

Actually, each table cell is by default a separate paragraph (of course, if you press Enter within a cell, then the cell contains more than one paragraph). To keep a row with the following one, it is usually sufficient to format any one of the cells as "Keep with next." If you select the whole row, then you're applying that formatting to all the cells. This is the same as if you selected several ordinary text paragraphs and applied paragraph formatting.

> The key to keeping rows together is to format them as "Keep with next,"

> and that check box is found on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the

> Paragraph dialog, which is accessed via the dialog launcher in the

> Paragraph group on the Home tab.

Thanks. That finally turned out to be the key to fixing it. I knew all along that I could solve it if I could only find the paragraph properties, but the paragraph properties can't be found on the right-click menu, leading me to the belief that a table was not considered to be part of a paragraph. It didn't occur to me to look at that discreet little arrow in the top menu bar.

Also, I didn't realise until now that each table row is considered to be a separate paragraph.

While the article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/KeepTableOn1Page.htm does not refer to versions after Word 2007, the procedure is exactly the same in Word 2010. The key to keeping rows together is to format them as "Keep with next," and that check box is found on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog, which is accessed via the dialog launcher in the Paragraph group on the Home tab.

The article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm is more extensive and, though not updated for Word 2010, is still applicable. Nothing in the way tables behave has changed between Word 2003 and Word 2013.

A "wrapped table" is a table that has had the text wrapping set to "Around." This can happen if you use the table handle to drag the table (or if you even inadvertently nudge the table when touching the handle to select it). If you don't want the table to be wrapped, you have to set the wrapping to "None" on the Table tab of Table Properties (as you say you have).

> That text wrapping setting is the one Pam was referring to, and it is the answer

> to the question asked.

I guess there's been some confusion about what the original question was, probably because the original person actually asked two questions.

> Your question is a different one and is answered in

> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/KeepTableOn1Page.htm

That is indeed the answer to my question, but it answers it only for Word 2007 and earlier. The solutions given do not work in Word 2010.

> and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm.

> To manually break a table to the next page without splitting it (and

> thereby losing the repeating header row), format the row as "Page break before."

That is about inserting page breaks, rather than ensuring that there are no page breaks. It's useful advice for large tables that will extend over more than one page. My table has only 5 rows, and no complications like repeating headers. All I want to do is ensure that it will remain entirely on one page, i.e. start on the next page if it won't fit on the current page. This, I think, is the question that some (although not all) of the people in this thread have been asking.

 

> If your table is wrapped, there is a Compatibility Option

> (File | Options | Advanced: Layout options) that will prevent it from

> being broken: "Don't break wrapped tables across pages."

I've just tried this (it's a well-hidden option!), but it does not work in my case. That's possibly because my table is not a "wrapped table", whatever that is.