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December 17, 2015
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Using Framemaker 7.2. Creating a table at the top of the first page

  • December 17, 2015
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When I try to create a table with four lines and two columns, it appears on the top of page 2 rather than page 1 where I want it. I cannot find a means to anchor it at the top of the first page. What am I doing wrong?

Dennis....

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Correct answer Stefan Gentz

By the way, in FrameMaker 2015, there is also a table format "catalog" like you know it from the paragraph and character style catalog. This makes it very easy to assign table designs to tables (see here).

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December 17, 2015

By the way, in FrameMaker 2015, there is also a table format "catalog" like you know it from the paragraph and character style catalog. This makes it very easy to assign table designs to tables (see here).

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December 17, 2015

Hi Dennis,

You can specify in the table designer, where the tables starts. Click into the table and open the table designer. In the "Basic" section, you find the "Start" drop-down. Select "Anywhere" instead of "Top of Page". You might also need to adjust the "Orphan Rows" setting. If it is too high, long tables will not break over pages properly.

Please also make sure, that the paragraph containing the table anchor is not set to "Top of Page" (Paragraph Designer > Pagination > Start > Anywhere vs. Top of Page).

You can find comprehensive information about formatting tables here: FrameMaker tables, especially here: Table position and spacing.

*Stefan.

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Anonymous
December 17, 2015

Hi Stefan...

Thank you for your assistance with this. While "Anywhere" is a rather ambiguous term, it's surprising to me that it seems to ALMOST do what I needed. Why "anywhere" gives the results it does seems odd to me. However, there is a gap above the table; it does not start at the top of the column as desired. Why is this?

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Stefan GentzCommunity Manager
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December 17, 2015

I'm not sure what changed, but I did as you said and created a special TableAnchor paragraph format with a 2 pt. font size. I applied this to the table anchor paragraph above the table. Of course, that shrunk the top line to essentially zero for all practical purposes, moving the table up to where I wanted it to be.

What appeared to change is the fact that a carriage return  (Enter key) did not move the table down as it did before.each time it was pressed, as it did just an hour ago. Now the next line of text appears below the table as desired.

This will work for me. Now, to resolve the issue of too many blank pages due to these special chapters that only require one page to describe the tag.

Dennis...


Awesome. I like when problems get solved :-)

Maybe one last tip: You could set up the Anchor Style in a way, that wen you hit Return, the next paragraph gets automatically formatted with a different style. Like this:

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