Working with tables in MS Word can make many of your documents much easier to manage. However there are occasions when even the simple-to-use tables can be frustrating. One frequent frustration that many people face is:
"Why has the border not printed at the bottom of my table"
Well, that's because borders only appear at the end of a row (and I'm going with the assumption that borders have been switched on)
So, if a row contains a reasonable amount of information, there may come a time when it can't physically fit all that info onto the space available at the bottom of the page, and just like any other text, as soon as MS Word runs out of space it adds a new page. As you have not inserted a new row, MS Word will NOT draw a border to indicate the end of the row, because, well.... it hasn't reached the end of the row.
Of course this is all well and good, but it just doesn't look very nice, does it?
Instead of trying to manually shift your information around - or the even more common sin of reducing font size to force the information to fit - you can simply instruct MS Word to not allow the row to split between pages.
Position cursor in the row that you want to stop
breaking over two pages
- Select the Layout tab in the Table Tools ribbon
- Click the Properties button
- Click on the Row tab and deselect the option Allow row to break across pages
- Click OK
That's it. Neat and tidy without too much effort from you - especially not mismatched font sizes trying to force.
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