Repeat header row at the top of each page does not work as expected...

Anonymous
2013-10-27T14:55:55+00:00

I have tried to use the table properties option checkbox reading Repeat as header row at the top of each page, however, the header row just does not appear at the top of each page.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-10-27T15:23:13+00:00

To be a repeating header row, the row must be the first row of the table (multiple rows can be selected, but they must include the first and be contiguous. (Make sure, however, that you don't have the entire table selected when you designate a row as the header row.)

In addition, the table must have text wrapping set to None (Tabletab of Table Properties).

If the table contains a manual page break, the header will not repeat. You can, however, insert a page break without breaking the table by formatting a row as "Page break before" (on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog).

Note that this applies only to tables. If you want a page header, you need to add a header to the page itself.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-04T19:34:22+00:00

    Thank you so much for this solution. I was having this problem and was not sure how to resolve but the text wrap solution worked perfect.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-07-29T17:37:43+00:00

    I know I'm very late to this conversation, and my Word is the 2010 version (In some ways, I'm permanently stuck in 2010, apart from my body/brain).

    The suggestions here worked for me. Thank you! I suspect I'd fallen foul of "Don't have the entire table selected".

    If something like this is preventing "Repeat header at the top of each page" from working, shouldn't the checkbox be disabled, or better you get a popup saying why it's not going to work? And how to fix it?

    Do later versions implement some sort of heads-up, warning you that it won't work?

    I hesitate to suggest greying out the control, as greyed-out controls are anathema unless clicking them pops up an explanation.

    If I ruled the world, that would be my first proclamation: NO GREYED OUT CONTROLS UNLESS CLICKING THEM TOLD THE USER WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT! Apart from the red button in the White House :-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-04T20:38:50+00:00

    Turning off text wrapping was the key action for me. I had a little trouble finding it, but once I did, my multi-page table started getting the repeating header.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-30T03:33:47+00:00

    To be clear, rather than say:

    It turns out that in addition to overcoming that problem by removing the Keep with next and Keep lines together attributes from the paragraphs in the ONE AND ONLY NON-HEADING ROW IN THE TABLE, it can also be overcome by removing those attributes from the Heading Row itself.

    I should have said:

    It turns out that as an alternative to overcoming that problem by removing the Keep with next and Keep lines together attributes from the paragraphs in the ONE AND ONLY NON-HEADING ROW IN THE TABLE, it can also be overcome by removing those attributes from the Heading Row itself.

    That is, you can leave the Keep with next and Keep lines together in the second row, IF you remove the Keep with next from the Heading row and then the Heading row is not separated from the second row of the table.

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