Urgent help with a table wanted!

Report · Nov 03, 2010

I have a table that runs over 3 pages. There's a header that shows on all 3 pages. No footer. Up until today everything has worked perfectly.

Today it is like this:

If I mark a cell on page 1, everything is OK, I can make changes.

If I mark a cell on page 2, the whole table EXCEPT the header on page 2 is marked.

If I mark a cell on page 3, everything is OK, I can make changes.

I have done the following:

I moved the whole table to a new file. I borrowed a header from another table in the file, pasted that on the right page and copied all the cells except the header from the new file and added these below the header. It didn't work.

I erased the table above, and copied in everything except the header, added 2 header-rows above the first cell and wrote in the text. That didn't work.

I don't know what to do as I need to change a cell on page 2. OK, I can go back to the file I created, do the change there, and copy it all back, but that wont help the next time I have to do a change on page 2.

I don't know how this table behaved the last time I had the file opened as I didn't do any changes in this table then (the file contains 10 tables, this table is the only one that runs on more than one page).

If I select the header on page 1, the header on page 2 doesn't get selected, but the header on page 3 does. If I put the marker in the last cell of page 1 and click tab, nothing happens. It's like page 2 is out of the flow, but if I put the marker down on page 2, pages 1-3 gets marked....

Please, can somebody help me?

PS. I have finally been able to upgrade from FM7.2b128 to b158, that was not easy! I had to do it as an administrator with Windows XP SP3 compatibiliy....

Report · Nov 03, 2010

lenahanson wrote:
I have a table that runs over 3 pages. There's a header that shows on all 3 pages. No footer. Up until today everything has worked perfectly.
Today it is like this:
If I mark a cell on page 1, everything is OK, I can make changes.
If I mark a cell on page 2, the whole table EXCEPT the header on page 2 is marked.
If I mark a cell on page 3, everything is OK, I can make changes.
I have done the following:
I moved the whole table to a new file. I borrowed a header from another table in the file, pasted that on the right page and copied all the cells except the header from the new file and added these below the header. It didn't work.
I erased the table above, and copied in everything except the header, added 2 header-rows above the first cell and wrote in the text. That didn't work.
I don't know what to do as I need to change a cell on page 2. OK, I can go back to the file I created, do the change there, and copy it all back, but that wont help the next time I have to do a change on page 2.
I don't know how this table behaved the last time I had the file opened as I didn't do any changes in this table then (the file contains 10 tables, this table is the only one that runs on more than one page).
If I select the header on page 1, the header on page 2 doesn't get selected, but the header on page 3 does. If I put the marker in the last cell of page 1 and click tab, nothing happens. It's like page 2 is out of the flow, but if I put the marker down on page 2, pages 1-3 gets marked....
Please, can somebody help me?
PS. I have finally been able to upgrade from FM7.2b128 to b158, that was not easy! I had to do it as an administrator with Windows XP SP3 compatibiliy....

I can still remember the shock I had when I rotated a text frame that contained a table, then saw the entire table become selected when I clicked a cell to edit it, and couldn't edit anything. The complete table was in the frame on one page. I don't know how this might work on a multi-page table if one of the frames that contain part of the table was rotated. This is the only cause I can think of: was the text frame rotated on the problem page?

Have you tried the "MIF wash" technique of saving the file as MIF, then opening the MIF file which becomes a true FM file. If that fixes it, consider it a Halloween prank that you've purged.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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Report · Nov 03, 2010

Thanks for answering. MIF didn't help, but I tried something I should have tried yesterday. I selected everything in the flow (Ctrl A), copied it, opened a new empty file, pasted everything, copied ALL formats. It worked! Must have been some Halloween prank as you say. The Master page used for the problem page was used elsewhere in the book, so it couldn't have been that. BUT on all the other pages that the "problem" Master page was used the table was just one page. Maybe something happened with it when it was part of a multi-page table? But shouldn't that problem have ended up in my new file then? A mystery.... But it works now, so I am happy

Lena