16th April 2002
Experts say you should schedule frequent breaks when you plan on computing for an extended period of time. No argument here! But what if you don't wanna take a break? You could adjust your page margins. What? Oh yeah, I was talking about avoiding table breaks in your Word documents. If that doesn't work, try forcing Word to keep the table rows together. Insert your cursor into a field, then in Word's menu bar, select Table | Select | Table. Once the table is highlighted, go back to the menu and select Format | Paragraph. Flip to the Line and Page Breaks tab, and put a checkmark in the "Keep with next" field. Don't you hate it when the table is split across two pages? Yeah, me too. Again, select the table, then pull up the Table Properties (which can be found at the bottom of the Table menu). Flip to the Row tab and deselect the "Allow row to break across pages" option. You could also try the "Shrink to Fit" feature in your Print Preview window. This is best left for documents where the table (or paragraph) spills over by a few lines. Word will automatically reformat the page(s) for you.