WD: How to Create a Different First Page Table Heading

ID: Q128906

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SUMMARY

When you select a row of a multipage table and click Headings on the Table menu, that row will automatically be repeated at the top of the table on all subsequent pages.

This article describes how to make the heading that appears on the first page different from the heading that appears on subsequent pages of the table.

For example, you can use this method to create a multipage table in which the heading reads "Results of Survey" on all pages, and all but the first page also include the word "Continued."

MORE INFORMATION

To create this effect, in the first row of the table, type the heading that will appear on all but the first page. Then use a Text Box to cover up any words that you don't want to appear on the first page. Use the following steps to accomplish this:

1. In the first row of the table, type the text that you want to appear on 

   the second and subsequent pages of the table. (In the example given
   above, you would type "Results of Survey, Continued."), and select the
   first row.
2. On the Table menu, click Headings. At this point, the same text will 
   appear at the top of the table on every page.
3. Create a Text Box over the first heading.

4. Select the Text Box and click Drawing Object on the Format menu.

5. Select the Fill tab. In the Color box, click White, in the Patterns box 

   click None, and in the Pattern Color box, click White.
6. Select the Line tab and click None. Click OK.

7. Size and position the Text Box so that it obscures the word or words 

   that are to not appear on the first page. Also, make sure the Text Box
   does not obscure any borders of the first row of the table. (In the
   example, you would move the Text Box so that it covered the comma and
   the word "Continued.")
8. Anchors. Click OK.

9. Click on the Text Box's Anchor and drag it next to the second table row. 

   You can lock the anchor by selecting Lock Anchor in the Size and
   Position tab of the Drawing Object dialog box.
The Text Box now obscures the unwanted text on the first page, and the extra text is visible on the rest of the pages of the table.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Word User's Guide," pages 297, 368-369, 373

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Keywords          : kbtable 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a;MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998