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• Use the Keep with next paragraph option to keep the table and
an immediately following paragraph together if you insert a page
break.
• Use the Repeat heading option, and its associated numbers box,
to select the number of table heading rows that will be repeated
on each page. A complicated table may need two or three heading
rows to be easily read and understood.
• Use the Text direction list to select the direction for the text in the
cells. The most common setting is Left to right for Western
languages.
Note
The phrase Use superordinate object settings means “use the
formatting settings from the paragraph before the table”.
Figure 277: Table Format dialog box: Text Flow page
• Select the vertical alignment of the text in the table or the
selected cells; the choices are to align with the top of the cell, the
center of the cell, or the bottom of the cell. This alignment is in
addition to the Left-Right alignment options available on the Table
page of the Table Format dialog box.
Note
A table heading row can not span two pages, but any other row
can. A one-row table (often used for page layout purposes), if set
up with the default of including a heading, will not break across
pages. The cure is to make sure the table is defined without a
heading row.
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