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

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I'm trying to split a table in Pages so that the text in the two adjacent rows will fall on two separate pages but I cannot find a way to do this. This was something that is easy to do if using MS Word so I can't believe it would be a feature missing from Pages?


The document I'm working with is my resume and I had my jobs nicely formatted in a long table so it was easy to work with (job title, dates, achievements etc. in different cells). Since updating to Yosemite and Pages 5.5 I've noticed that I now have my career summary and 'Professional Experience' title on the first page but the table with all my job information is now starting on the second page - leaving just a lot of blank space on the first page. One of the jobs on the second page now also splits across pages 2 and 3. I can see that it is trying to keep everything in the table together and that what I need to do is just split the table at a certain point so that I can put the first part of the table back onto page 1 and the second part of it on page 2 - but it won't give me any option to do this.


Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 28, 2014 8:42 PM

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Posted on Nov 3, 2014 10:29 PM

I can't say I solved this one despite a lot of looking around the web and I can't believe Pages would't have something as basic as a 'Split table' function built into it. What I had to do was create some space above the table (with line returns) and then put a copy of my other table there (so it had the same format - or just insert a new table) and then delete the relevant rows from each table so I had the jobs I wanted on the first page and then the other jobs on the second page and this way they formatted on my CV the way I wanted it to.


Still unbelievable though that you can't just split a table!

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Mar 18, 2016 2:46 AM in response to amy-jade

Hi amy-jade,


Pages 5.6.1

where is the 'more' tab!? :-/

The More tab is in Format Panel > Text > Pagination & Breaks

User uploaded file

Untick Prevent widow & orphan lines and see if that keeps your table starting on the same page as your text then breaks to the next page.


Regards,

Ian.


Edit: see if that keeps your table starting on the same page as your text then breaks to the next page.

Mar 18, 2016 3:57 AM in response to Yellowbox

I tried that but it didn't work 😟 I even opened a new document and tried different tables (incase the table I has selected had a bug) but unfortunately this also didn't work. I have changed my work document now so that the table doesn't have so many coloumns so that the text will fit on one page.

Very annoy that I couldn't get Pages to work for my needs...

Thank you again very much for trying to help

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

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