How do I split a table over two pages in Pages?

Thanks for your answer,

however, I realise this still doesn't work for rows with texts which would span longer than 1 page 😟 - text at the end of such rows simply disappear 😢

I remember I migrated to LibreOffice a few years ago after encountered this problem, now back to Pages again hoping it is fixed -- but after some searching, seems like it's still unresolved 😕

Totally frustrated, back to LibreOffice I am.

selecting or deselecting the "Prevent Widow & Orphan Lines"...had 0.0 effect on allowing the table to spread across multiple pages.

Here is what I found to be successful:

Select the Table

Select the Format button (upper right corner of the Pages screen)

Select Arrange Tab (within Format)

Within the Object Placement section, select the "Move with Text" tab.

Table now spreads across multiple pages.

Stupid default Apple. Had to rub my head and pat my belly to make it work properly...very Windows-like... it shouldnt be

Hi,

I had the same problem with my CV. You should be able to solve the problem by not having any empty lines between text and table. To not mess up your current layout try to enter some text (e.g., "text" or a simple dot) into each blank line and format it in white (so it does not show up on your final document).

Tables should split just fine afterwards.

Works?

Thanks toto caipira ... I have used your way of doing this which works - just seems daft that a 'split table' function has not been included by Apple on Pages (which otherwise I like very much).

HN,

Pages, and Numbers, have never split a Cell across a page boundary, but they will split a table by moving a row that doesn't fit completely on one page, to the next page.

In Pages, the Table must have the property "Move With Text", or it won't flow to the next page at all. From your description, your problem is not that the table doesn't flow, but that it won't split a cell.

The only way around this is to put less information in each cell, so the rows aren't so tall. Rows with less height won't leave so much blank space when they jump to the next page.

This is analogous to not splitting paragraphs across a page boundary. It's like Widow and Orphan control.

The other way around this is to not use a table to organize your document. There are plenty of text control tools in Pages to allow you to arrange your document without the use of a table object.

Jerry

This is the fix for this behavior. Additionally, If you are in page layout mode, there will be no option to select "Move with Text", so you will have to select "Convert to Page Layout" in the file menu to get this to act correctly.

Although this thread is several months old, I felt compelled to reply as I have just encountered this gaping hole in Pages functionality. Jerrold Green 1 is incorrect in asserting that the OP's problem is that Pages won't split a cell across pages. The OP clearly indicates that Pages is not moving rows that won't fit on the first page of the table, but rather it moves the whole table to the next page.

So for example, if I have a paragraph of text at the top of page 1, and then insert a table under this paragraph that contains more rows than will fit on the remainder of the page, rather than the rows that won't fit being moved to page 2, Pages moves the entire table to page 2 leaving a big blank space on page 1. But bizarrely if the table contains more rows than will fit on one whole page, then it will move the overflow rows onto the third page, making you wonder why it didn't just do this on page 1.

This is with the table arrangement set to Move with Text. If I set it to Stay on Page, the end of the table just flows over the footer and off the page into oblivion. If I set Text Wrap to None, it just plonks the table right on top of the other text. So it gives you the option to do something silly, but not the most sensible option.

If I am missing something, then can someone please correct me. Without this basic functionality Pages cannot be considered a professional Word Processor. I'll unfortunately have to go back to MS Word.

Ok, I found the answer to this in this thread: Pages 5.5 Tables Bug?

In short, click in the left margin, beside the table (or just select the whole document), and in the Format panel on the right select the "More" tab and uncheck the "Prevent widow & orphan lines" option. The table will then be arranged sensibly. For some reason Apple thought it better to make the incoherent behaviour the default.

Thanks for finding and sharing that Bryxxus ... sounds good and I will definitely try that solution next time I need to do a table.

For some idiotic reason, Apple Support Communities software won't let me delete a comment. So instead, all I can do is replace the comment with this text.

Thanks Bryxxus I was going completely loopy with this!!! 🙂

My table now behaves as I would expect, wonderful!

Format panel on the right select the "More" tab and uncheck the "Prevent widow & orphan lines" option.

Bravo, Bryxxus 🙂.

Regards,

Ian

Bryxxus, a thousand thank yous. You are a star.

Bryxxus, you are amazing and I can't thank you enough. 🙂➕➕