Formatting Wide Tables
- With the cursor in the required table, on the Home tab, click Table | Properties.
- In the Table tab, select Enable wide-table printing. The Wide Table Printing tab appears in the dialog.
- Click the Wide Table Printing tab.
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To allow the tables to print horizontally, from the Print Table list, select Horizontally. Selecting this option causes the overflow of the table (those columns wider than the page width), to print on separate pages after the page the table begins on.
To wrap the table when printing, printing the overflow of the table as rows under the first section of the table, select Wrapping. Specify the amount of space you want between rows when the table wraps in the Space Between Sets of Rows box.
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Complete the formatting of your table by selecting each column in the column list and configuring it so that it prints the way you want, using the following options:
Repeat column
Set the selected column to repeat as desired. This option can be used to print the first few columns of a table, such as the one containing the table title, on each page. For tables that wrap, these columns repeat at the right of each set of rows.
Keep with next
Select to ensure that the selected column prints on the same page - or in the same row for wrapping tables - as the column that follows it. Merged columns keep together by default.
If the table breaks horizontally across two page breaks, these merged squares can be allowed to split on a row by row basis.
Break
Select this option to force a new page break for the table after the selected column. For wrapping tables, the page break causes a new row to start when printing the table. Note: columns breaks override any defined keep together groups.
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Click OK.
