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Add Row Above and Add Row Below are grayed out

I've been working on Pages in my iMac, created a table, I've been adding rows for months, and then all of a sudden I clicked on the row, then clicked on the drop-down-arrow and I see that the add rows are all grayed out.


Posted on Oct 7, 2020 8:31 PM

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Posted on Oct 11, 2020 4:00 PM

Pages (3.6.2) and most of the versions after that are limited to 999 rows in a table.


If you need more, your choices are to add a new table, or to move your table (via copy and paste) to a Numbers document where a single table can have 16000 rows (rounded down to the nearest thousamd).


Numbers did get a slight boost in the current version (10.x) to a maximum 1,000,000 rows in each table. Pages 10 may have had it's maximum increased as well.


Regards,

Barry


PS: A quicker way to add rows to a table (in Numbers or Pages) is to select a group of cells in as many rows as you want to add, then press option-down arrow to add that many rows below the last one containing one of the selected cells. Using the up arrow will add rows above the selected rows, using the left or right arrows will add columns to left or right of the selected group.

B.

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Oct 11, 2020 4:00 PM in response to -Theo_5

Pages (3.6.2) and most of the versions after that are limited to 999 rows in a table.


If you need more, your choices are to add a new table, or to move your table (via copy and paste) to a Numbers document where a single table can have 16000 rows (rounded down to the nearest thousamd).


Numbers did get a slight boost in the current version (10.x) to a maximum 1,000,000 rows in each table. Pages 10 may have had it's maximum increased as well.


Regards,

Barry


PS: A quicker way to add rows to a table (in Numbers or Pages) is to select a group of cells in as many rows as you want to add, then press option-down arrow to add that many rows below the last one containing one of the selected cells. Using the up arrow will add rows above the selected rows, using the left or right arrows will add columns to left or right of the selected group.

B.

Oct 7, 2020 8:58 PM in response to -Theo_5

Welcome, -Theo_5, to Apple Support Communities!


You appear to have reached the limit to the number Rows Pages can handle within a single Table.


What version of Pages are you running?


How many Rows does your Table have?


While I’m familiar with the Table Row limits of Numbers, I’m not sure whether Pages shares the same limits, or if it is even more limited.

Add Row Above and Add Row Below are grayed out

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