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!!
-
Uwe Laubender commented
Absolutely necessary feature: Split table rows between text frame columns and threaded text frames. See especially this thread at Adobe inDesign Forums:
how prevent row from breaking into the next page.
ashimg23377171 Jun 14, 2018
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2502409FWIW: If the developers ever decide to implement footnotes with tables, breaking a row would come handy as well. Imagine a table with a row you can see from the first post of the linked thread plus footnotes where the footnote text should be on the same page AND you have a lot of footnotes and a lot of footnote texts you could get into a situation where you create permanent overflow of the story!
One could prevent this hypothetic situation by allowing to split a row between text columns and text frames.
Best,
Uwe -
Uwe Laubender commented
Absolutely necessary feature. See this thread at Adobe inDesign Forums:
how prevent row from breaking into the next page.
ashimg23377171 Jun 14, 2018
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2502409FWIW: If the developers ever decide to implement footnotes with tables, breaking a row would come handy as well. Imagine a table with a row you can see from the first post of the linked thread plus footnotes where the footnote text should be on the same page AND you have a lot of footnotes and a lot of footnote texts you could get into a situation where you create permanent overflow of the story!
Best,
Uwe -
Rob commented
Im sure they are doing a fix on this as we speak................. hello..........anyone......... ARE YOU LISTENING TO US............... im about ready to cancel my subscription to Indesign because I can do this in Word and its a whole LOT CHEAPER than Indesign, and 50% of my job is doing tables!!! anyone??? HELP!!!..................bueller? Bueller? Bueller.?
-
Rob commented
PLEASE!!!!!!! WE BEG YOU... make this a feature!!! its so cumbersome to do it the cut and paste way... Tables are the only part where MS WORD has you beat... please fix THIS!!!!
-
Ellen commented
Total pain. Needs to happen!
-
Anonymous commented
I can get my tables to break in a cell in MS Word - the worst word processor app ever made - but I cannot do this in InDesign. Really? It's bad enough there is no good chart/graph functionality in anything Adobe, but this feature should have been fixed at InDesign v.2.
-
Anonymous commented
I agree, I opened my first version of Indesign 2.0 on my old computer and tables have NOT changes at all in 19 years!!! PLEASE!!! WE USE TABLES!!!!! MAKE THEM EASIER TO USE!!!!! WE ARE BEGGING YOU!!!
-
Hakan BALCI commented
Auto split table cells
Table cells must be divisible when passing to the other page. Word has this feature.
-
Andrewtb333 commented
This thread is asking for the same functionality, I believe, so that would bring the votes up to 30!
-
Andrewtb333 commented
There are actually a few ideas about this in the system but they are all worded differently. I for one would word this "Allow table rows to break across frames". Assuming I have understood the intent of this idea, of course. Perhaps they could all be consolidated?
-
Barb Binder commented
Adding the option to allow cells to split across pages would be helpful to a lot of us.
-
J.Dinesh commented
Yes, this is best when the table cell flowed like an inline text / conditional text continuation without any manual intervention. Hope this is one of our inDesign challenges between its competitors.
Kindly Invest time in this bottle neck and provide list of solutions and we can choose the best method.
-
Bhupathi L commented
This is heavy manual work to split the table cell across linked text frames. Please include this feature in InDesign to save the huge time for composition.
-
Andrewtb333 commented
This is very true. With all the new features InDesign has added over the years, the basic (and very useful) functionality of tables in InDesign hasn't really changed from its initial implementation back in what, 1999?. Not being able to split a row across frames is such a huge impediment to layout, and makes Word superior for table-heavy documents, sad to say.
-
Anonymous commented
Tables!!!! First can we have table cells/rows that BREAK across pages. Second can we the ability to adjust the size of rows or columns without having to split and join an split and join..... Word is a much inferior product and this has been available since 1994.... Tables are probably what we use most of with little or no updating since Indesign 1.0....
-
Uwe Laubender commented
Added my vote…
Regards,
Uwe -
Anonymous commented
It's a real pain indeed. How can this idea have only 9 votes?
-
Tobias Wantzen commented
Automatic page breaks inside a table cell (see MS Word).
It's a pain and very error-prone to cut the tail of the text even in the middle of a hyphenated word, add a new table row and paste it into that new row. It's bad and it's wrong when exporting the text and if your table reflows because of corrections before it, it produces errors, but up to now it's the only thing you can do to have a pagebreak inside a table cell.