[lug] Problem with MS Word tables in OpenOffice

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 08:54 pm, Evelyn Mitchell wrote:
> * On 2004-09-16 18:45 Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to get OpenOffice to handle tables in MS Word docs sensibly 
at 
> > page boundaries. I've got a 9 page Word document that only shows as 7 
pages 
> > in OpenOffice: the table on page 5 just sort of runs off into the twilight 
> > zone instead of getting split at the page boundary and continuing onto a 
new 
> > page.
> 
> What happens if you split the table on page 5 prior to where it runs off
> into the twilight?
> 
> > 
> > Any suggestions for either a fix or workaround or useful google terms 
would be 
> > enormously helpful.
> > 
> > I'm using OpenOffice  1.1.1 with the KRUD FC2 August dist.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -- 
> > Elyse Grasso
> > 
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I can't seem to get it to insert a page break into the table. (I managed to do 
that once before with a different document with a similar problem, but can't 
seem to get the current version of OO to cooperate.
-- 
Elyse Grasso

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