Option to split table rows across pages
Lord please, if you're up there, answer our INDD prayers and make this a feature. A LOT of tables have rows with more content than can be held in a single page or bottom of a page. It's impossible to layout a continuous book or brochure if I can't get the table text to split - it doesn't have to be the default, but give me the option - please, please. WORD does this, be better than Word!!
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Bevi Chagnon | ACP commented
@Michelle Carroll on Feb. 20, 2024:
That's a great option for pushing the row to the next page, etc.
But there still isn't an option to allow the row to split (or break) to put part of the row on page 1 and the remaining elements on page 2.It only controls where the row will start, not whether it can split across pages or columns or frames.
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Bevi Chagnon | ACP commented
Hi Abhinav,
This feature should be added as an option in 2 places:1. In Table Properties, a checkbox to automatically break rows across pages and columns, and
2. In Cell Properties / Rows to allow user to select an individual row to break across pages and columns. (Also in context menu / right-click when a row is selected).
ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Per PDF/UA, each row must be one <TR> in the tag tree, regardless of whether the row breaks across a page or column. The breaking row must NOT become 2 <TR> tags. -
Ivy Wood commented
Does Adobe not care about the Environment. Paper is wasted on this.
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Andrea Lecca commented
PLEASE!
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Dawn B commented
Even ****** Word has this much needed feature. Why does Adobe keep ignoring this?
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Nelson Mwangi commented
I have a 500 page document with multiple tables. This is giving me so much pain!
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Shiva s commented
We want this badly! I hope this is the highly voted request.
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Hamish commented
This is such a no brainer that FREE software like LibreOffice just does it by default. Create a table. Fill the first cell with thousands of words and BAM it flows over as many pages as it needs to. No secret hidden setting, no plug-in, no clumsy workaround, IT JUST WORKS!
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Carolyn Van Kleek commented
Why is this such an over sight with Adobe! Please add this feature.
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Anonymous commented
I can't typeset books with tables that can't be split across pages. This is a serious flaw in InD. The workaround is hugely labor-intensive and drastically hinders meeting my deadlines.
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Ivy Wood commented
Adobe, please help save the planet by reducing paper waste. This small change of allowing a table rows to break across pages would go a long way towards reducing page count on printed our documents.
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Christy Morris commented
April 2024 Where is Adobe?
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Raphael commented
Feature request with most votes on UserVoice.
Adobe: We startet working on it, a year after posting it.
Also Adobe: 5 Years later. No update.
That's why we pay 60 Dollars a month.
BUT I mean we can finally use horribly AI-generated content in Photoshop. Isn't that great. -
Michelle Carroll commented
Don't know if anyone answered this yet, but I have found (and it's not foolproof, by any means) that if you select the row you want to break and go under Table>Cell Options>Rows and Columns and on Start Row pulldown, select "On Next Page". That will send that row and everything that follows it to the next page.
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Adam Zuckerman commented
Has anyone found a workaround to this yet?
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Irfan Ahmed commented
Any update. This feature is desperately needed. Adobe are you listening?
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Jill commented
5 years and no solution? What up adobe!??
Will you comment on why this has not been programmed?
Even Microsoft Word can split a table row.
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Amy R commented
Any update on when this will be completed?
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Joe Santa commented
Agree with everyone here - please find a way to make this work. And also find a way to make Auto Styles work in tables!!
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Andre commented
Why is it still in the backlog, despite being so simple, and so requested? Have you forgotten this feature or something? Or are more amazing sounding features with "AI" in the name higher priority because it drives interest?