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

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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. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-30T00:02:58+00:00

    The document I received had a heading row, one deep row (which consumed an entire page), and an empty row on the following page. I had not understood that you were having to disable "Keep with next" in the heading row. That is definitely counterintuitive.

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-29T22:07:26+00:00

    There is NO FOLLOWING ROW.  The Table contains TWO rows - The heading row and one other row.

    While the Keep with next and Keep lines together do not stop the second row from being split across pages, those settings DO cause the second row to be split from the Heading row.

    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.

    It is RATHER COUNTER INTUITIVE that having the Heading Row set to be kept with next would ACTUALLY DO THE OPPOSITE.

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-29T13:09:40+00:00

    Exactly. The deep row consumes an entire page. When it tries to stick with the following row, it gets separated from the header row.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-29T04:56:18+00:00

    As indicated by the highlighting, it is all one row.  There are only two rows in the table.

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