Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

[Avraham Makeler]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, end of mystery. Found the problem: I only just noticed that the Table
> Designer also has an Orphan Rows field. The TableCaption style was set to
> 99.
> Thanks again to all.
>
> - avi
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> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Combs, Richard <
> richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote:
>
>> Avraham Makeler wrote:
>>
>> > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that
>> > follows
>> > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's
>> anchor
>> > point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table
>> itself
>> > starts at the top of the next page.
>> >
>> > What is going wrong?
>>
>> Numerous possibilities. Check these:
>>
>> -- In Table Designer, Basic tab, is Start set to Top of Page (or
>> something else causing the same outcome)?
>>
>> -- In the same place, is Orphan Rows set to a number too high to allow
>> the table to break across pages?
>>
>> -- For each row, select Table > Row Format. Check the row's Start Row
>> and Keep With settings.
>>
>> -- In addition, look for possible interactions of these settings. For
>> instance, as others noted, a row can't break across pages. If you row 3
>> is too tall to fit on the first page, but rows 1 and 2 are set to Keep
>> With Next, or Orphan Rows is set to 3, then FM has to pull the whole
>> thing down a page to conform to the settings.
>>
>> HTH!
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> Richard G. Combs
>> Senior Technical Writer
>> Polycom, Inc.
>> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>> 303-223-5111
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