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#93100 14-Nov-2011 15:19

Putting together a pricelist in word. It has to be in word.

Anyway, each product is in a table, and there is a table within that table that has the available sizes and metals it comes in.

So far so good but work will break the middle of the inner table between pages. I want it to make each outer table stick to a single page only. Tried selecting everything and making it keep with next in the paragraph dialog but it ignores me.

Short of going thru and putting page breaks in manually to make it look right for now (till more stuff is added), is there any hidden tricks to make it behave?

It has to be in word so that other people can edit it and add and remove ticks from things that are in stock and reprint it etc, otherwise I would be thinking about using indesign which I think I have done it in before a long time ago.

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#545246 14-Nov-2011 16:32

Libre Office (3.3) has per-table formatting options to allow or prevent table split across rows and columns in relation to page breaks. Default is allow.

I recall MS Office has the same per-table formatting options but don't have Word 2007 installed to check it.

(avoiding that install unless proven necessary

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#545257 14-Nov-2011 16:51

Hmm, I wonder if I could install it, set those options then save it and have them stick once back in word?

Word is doing other dumb stuff with the tables too. I cant believe I ever wrote a whole damn report in this broken piece of junk!

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#545268 14-Nov-2011 17:03

If MS Office Word 2007 supports those same table formatting options, the answer is almost certainly yes.

Just save as a Word 2007 document from Libre Office Writer, then open in Word 2007.

Personally no problems so far, but I don't think I've ever needed to check a table. Good luck!

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#545273 14-Nov-2011 17:14

Hmm, its getting weirder, I basically did the same thing in a document to upload to show it being broken, and it works ok. Guess I have stuffed up one of the styles somehow. Wish word worked as easily as html editors where you had a view source to remove the crap that it ends up adding that you dont want.

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#545280 14-Nov-2011 17:29

Wish word worked as easily as html editors where you had a view source to remove the crap that it ends up adding that you dont want.

Word 2007 uses Microsoft's open and (kind of) documented (but not 'free') xml format, so you kind of have a chance with that.

(I'm guessing) You can open the .docx archive with Winzip or another unzip utility to extract and text diff/edit the data you are interested in.

But there are specialised editors for the format as well. Example: http://www.altova.com/xmlspy/office-2007-xml.html

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#545284 14-Nov-2011 17:39

Libre office totally messes up the table layout when opening the document, and I have _no_ idea where anything is in it. Will have more of a play with it tomorrow, not a biggie if I have to redo some of the tables but I cant even seem to get the handles in the ruler to do anything logical in libreoffice.

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#545289 14-Nov-2011 17:52

Bummer. Wonder what causes that. Is your 'table within table' format just the usual split columns within a larger table or is it more complex than that?

Suggest creating example tables from scratch with the settings you require, save, and view in Word to see if the settings are retained and behave as expected there.