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TechJames
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September 24, 2009
Question

Allow table rows to break across pages

  • September 24, 2009
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Hello,

Is there a way to allow an individual table row to break across a page?  In other words, FrameMaker appears to, by default, keep the contents of each row together on a single page.  If the row is too large to fit on a single page, then, apparently, you're out of luck.  There must be some way to override this.

I'm working in FrameMaker 7.2.

Thanks very much.

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Art_Campbell1
Inspiring
September 24, 2009

No, there's not....

You can kludge it by dividing the row into two or three or more segments -- I usually divide along paragraphs, so that each row has just one or two paras -- and use Custom Ruling to eliminate inter-row ruling, so it appears to flow seamlessly.

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    TechJamesAuthor
    Participant
    September 24, 2009

    Thanks--that makes sense.  I'm dismayed that FrameMaker can't accommodate so mundane a need.

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    Art_Campbell1
    Inspiring
    September 24, 2009

    I suspect that it's a limitation imposed by the overall object-oriented design of the program -- containers inside containers (frames inside frames) nested down a large number of levels. If you few each row or cell as a container object, it makes more sense to not fragment an object.

    Doesn't help us in day-to-day writing, of course, but you can see the logic and also note that the work-around complies with it.

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