Split table

how did you do this in Word? It would be two tables, wouldn't it? Or a new line in the table that was merged across at the top of the page? This might give us a clue how to replicate in pages.

The fact that you said:

In Word or Excel it was a simple option

If we knew the option you prefer using in either we might get your answer for you.

Jason

This has come up several times in this (& the pre- '08) Pages forum. Rows will not split across a page. The only option is to divide the content into two rows. You can remove the row dividing line so that it will appear as a single row.

Peggy et al, a development of this problem with split tables is below. I have posted this as a bug on Pages Feedback:

I know this probably grates, but unlike Word, Pages does not let you have a table cell that splits across two pages of a document. What I mean by this is that if the cell you are typing into goes over the page, rather than carrying on over the page, the whole cell is pulled over onto the next page - leaving a huge gap of white space on the previous page.

And herein lies the bug in Pages. If the table cell is more than a full page in depth, Pages cuts off the bottom of document. Try it for yourself. Create a table of one full width cell and type, or cut and paste a page and a bit of text. See the problem? This needs sorting, not least because the reports I type into are formatted with tables that often go over the page. I and many others on the Pages forum have spoken about this problem many times. It must be a relatively simple fix if MS and NeoOffice can manage it...

A table can be placed inside a text box. If the table is larger than the text box, another text box can be created, placed on a subsequent page and linked to the first text box. The table continues to the second text box. Header rows are repeated, and so on. Photos and other material can be place between the two text boxes. Does this address your question?

A "bug" is an unintended implementation or lack of implementation of a feature. Just because Pages won't split a row doesn't mean it's a bug. That's the way the program was designed & has done this since Pages 1/iWork '05. If it's that important to you, leave feedback for the Pages team.

Sadly, no. I work with a pre-formatted report layouts supplied by the organisation I contract to. Some of these report layouts I have pain-stakingly recreated from the MS Word originals. I had a play with text boxes, but these do not work, since the 'table' I write into is two columns by, say, 8 rows, the last of which is free text narrative. I will have another look when I have some time - so many thanks for the suggestion.

Hi Peggy, I think that if you try out my experience for yourself, you'll see that it is indeed a bug. I'm not referring to Pages inability to split a table across two pages, but to the problem when a table contains more than a 'page worth' of text. This is when the bug occurs - the text that you'd expect to go over onto the next page in fact disappears completely.

As stated, I have already left feedback, I was merely drawing other users attention to the problem.