Here the copy of mine request that I send through beta-test feature requests from CS4:

"Dear developers of InDesign,

Thanks for all the effort you’ve put into making our pagesetting work easier.

For maybe 10 years already I’ve been sending requests for a single function to be implemented, namely:
It is necessary to have table cells containing a very large amount of text splitting between pages (at present a cell is lipped over to a page completely)

I’d like to point out that MS Word has had this capability for over 25 years, but it is not a pagesetting application of course. his functionality is very important for setting technical publications where long tables containing most of the publication’s text are frequent.

I’ve started topics devoted to this request at the prerelease forums for CS4 and CS5, than CS6, than CC testing and was told that that would be too expensive. After all those years could it be possible to set aside some funds?

Technical publications are built around tables; it is very important, and as an attempt to find a way out, a script has been developed by the leading Russian professional community, RUDTP http://forum.rudtp.ru/showthread.php?t=47080&p=537664&viewfull=1#post537664

That script kind of provides the functionality of splitting a cell into several page-sized pieces, but the script must be run after completing setting the publication, and any subsequent editing wrecks the publication utterly.

I’m hoping this topic will be noticed this time, not passed over as before. in advance thanks
George Salnik
Adobe InDesign Certified Instructor"

Let's hope this gets done asap, i hate depending on Word for this.
I could use this feature several times a week.

I need this

Where do I have to sign? Please guys add this feature!
Thanks

I just spent an hour trying to figure out how to split my table with no success, of course. Who would have thought it not necessary to add such a basic function/option?

OMG been searching on how to do this for over a year now and finally came across this page. PLEASE ADD THIS SIMPLE, YET EXPECTED FEATURE!!! It's made my life hell without it....

OMG been searching on how to do this for over a year now and finally came across this page. PLEASE ADD THIS SIMPLE, YET EXPECTED FEATURE!!! It's made my life hell without it....

I want to add my voice to the need to introduce a feature to break a cell when placing a table from Word, etc. This will enable the table to flow in pages when one cell has too much text.

DITTO!!! I use this feature ALL time in Word!

I'm developing a 500 page medical text with large tables of Medications. Locking tables inline then having to split them over 3 pages gives me the sense that im not using InDesign properly. It turns out (reading this page) that auto splitting tables over pages isn't actually a feature.

Word doesn't come close to InDesign functionality (the sooner the rest of the office working public realise that the better). Whack another feather in Adobe's hat by adding this function coding boffins. When you've finished that, we still need hoverboards
Cheers Sean

Adding my vote to include this feature in upcoming 2019 release.

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/2502409

FWIW: 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

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/2502409

FWIW: 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

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.?

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!!!!

Total pain. Needs to happen!

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.

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!!!

Auto split table cells

Table cells must be divisible when passing to the other page. Word has this feature.

This thread is asking for the same functionality, I believe, so that would bring the votes up to 30!

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/32195485-tables-cell-an-rows-breaking-across-page-and-m