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Pages V12.1. Table Text Overflow?

I cant believe that after all this time, I still cannot continue a long table column in Pages V12.1 to the next page.


I am trying to write a CV, and one table column is very long. However, it truncates at the bottom of the page, rather than continuing on to the next page.


Please tell me there is now a workaround.

Posted on Jun 29, 2022 5:54 AM

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Posted on Jun 29, 2022 8:07 AM

Unlike Word, or LibreOffice Writer (Word clone), Pages does not split cells on page boundaries. And by default, a table will spill onto the next page only if the Arrange panel's Text Wrap is set to Inline with Text and the single column does not violate the first sentence.


In the thirty years I spent in the computer industry, I never knew of anyone writing their CV in a table. You might get away with it if submitting a CV as PDF. Since Pages must perform a translation to get that .pages document to Word .docx, I highly recommend that if you are submitting a CV as a Word document, that you open it in MS Word before uploading it to an employer site. Applicant tracking software is real finicky about Word document content and layout.

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Jun 29, 2022 8:07 AM in response to ayshazen

Unlike Word, or LibreOffice Writer (Word clone), Pages does not split cells on page boundaries. And by default, a table will spill onto the next page only if the Arrange panel's Text Wrap is set to Inline with Text and the single column does not violate the first sentence.


In the thirty years I spent in the computer industry, I never knew of anyone writing their CV in a table. You might get away with it if submitting a CV as PDF. Since Pages must perform a translation to get that .pages document to Word .docx, I highly recommend that if you are submitting a CV as a Word document, that you open it in MS Word before uploading it to an employer site. Applicant tracking software is real finicky about Word document content and layout.

Pages V12.1. Table Text Overflow?

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