I have a table that will not break across frames.

[RalphBentley]

InDesign 14 on a PC. The table should continue on the next threaded frame, but does not. Have checked Keep options on all adjacent styles. Most tables would make this break, but this one does not.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Ralph:

A screen shot would help here.

In the meantime, you are looking at the row keep options (in cell options or in a cell style) and not paragraph keep options, right? And tall rows can't split across pages—that isn't the issue either, right?

~Barb

[RalphBentley]

Hi Barb

Thanks for the reply! Yeah,  I have looked at the row options in the cells dialog. And, I have never seen an InDesign table that allowed a cell to break across frames. I think I have previously solved this one by examining the style tag immediately in front of the table. The one that is a great long cursor running the entire height of the table. Sometimes that can pick up a heading or caption that has keep with next settings that interfere. I was just wondering if this is a feature. Like a table attribute that disallows a break in the table. Which, now that I think about it, would not even make sense. Since this document is now ultra-final, I’m probably going to just make it two separate tables.

Ralph Bentley

Art Director

[RalphBentley · Accepted solution]

Hello.  I figured out what was going on. For this document I have basic paragraph set to “keep all lines together.” None of the running text allows paragraphs to break. This creates irregular white space at the bottom of the pages, a livelier and more graphical feel. This “kept together” Basic Paragraph style into which the table is set was not allowing the table to break. Of course now I am pursuing other options, since the table should fit on one page.

Thank you for responding.

Ralph Bentley

Art Director

[Barb Binder]

Glad you got it figured out.

~Barb