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I'm working on a table that it several pages long and it so far has not been an issue. I tried to add more rows to the table but instead of continuing on to the next page, it began overlapping itself. It also began adding extra rows in a row already created, so the lines are overlapping what I have written in the column. How do I solve these issues? I already tried setting it up to Autoconnect but it didn't work.
I just had the same problem with overlapping tables and figured out that my text frame was set to two columns. Once I changed it to one column, the overlapping table contents went to the next page as I wanted!
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I recall (vaguely) that I had that happen to me some time ago (Frame 7 or 8?).
Don't know why it happened, but if you need this 'fixed' right away, I'd suggest saving the existing doc under a different name, open the original, remove the offending table, then create a new table.
Populate one row of the table with test content.
Copy and paste that row repeatedly until the table breaks across to the next page (yay!) or duplicates the problem (boo!).
I *do* recall that (again this is in an older version of Frame) I encountered same/similar problems when some of the content in the table was conditionalized.
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I already tried setting it up to Autoconnect but it didn't work.
I'd guess it is an auto-connect issue. Do you have disconnected pages in the file? These days, most of us just need to use Flow A, automatically set to auto-connect, to flow text continuously through the file. I run into a lot of people who don't understand how easy it is to add text to the middle of a file (just start typing, paste or import) and instead use Special > Add Disconnect Pages without any understanding of how that impacts the flow.
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I was able to get a new page but the table will not continue to the next page. Instead, the added rows jump to the top of the last page, overlapping the already existing rows and content. This table is several pages long and I only reached an issue at the very end of the page.
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Did you check the flow tags on both pages? Are they set to auto-connect?
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Rachel,
By any chance, are you trying to create a row that is too tall to fit on a single page? FM does not split tall rows across pages and its attempt to squeeze content into a space that is too small can look strange. (I believe this design makes sense. If a table has multiple columns and one of them is tall, it's not clear whether the other columns should be duplicated on successive pages or whether they should also split and if so where. Let the user explicitly identify how to distribute tall material over success pages by creating separate rows for each page.)
I don't know whether the situation jaggedpeak describes pertains to your table or if it is the same problem I encountered long ago. I had a table with some conditional rows. When I changed show/hide settings, some of the rows repeated. I believe it was at one of the FrameMaker Chautauquas (I think the last one was in 2008) that someone described a technique that worked for me. While removing format overrides did not correct the situation, rehyphenating it did. The process was to use Edit > Spelling Checker to bring up the Spelling Checker, click the Dictionaries button, click the Rehyphenate radio button, and click OK. Rehyphenating caused FM to reexamine every line and page break and that corrected my particular document.
--Lynne
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If you add more paragraphs after the table anchor and these create new pages, then the autoconnect settings are fine.
I had encountered similar issues a while back with earlier FrameMaker versions. (Now I have FM 2015.)
Which version do you use?
Did you install all available updates?
I do not remember exactly, what I did. What I would try (additionally to the rehyphenation):
This is only to find the cause. You do not have to keep these changes.
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I just had the same problem with overlapping tables and figured out that my text frame was set to two columns. Once I changed it to one column, the overlapping table contents went to the next page as I wanted!
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That solved it for me. Thank you
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You’re welcome - so glad it helped!
Tracey Hoover
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