I'm using OS X Yosemite and in Pages table jumps to the next page (and leaving text on the first page) when it gets too big, how can I stop it?
MacOS – How to prevent table moving to the next page in Pages
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The only way I can think of is to use footnotes.
They do exhibit the asked for behavior, and you can delete the automatically-inserted number/sign in the footnote itself.
The limitations, though, are threefold:
- You have to use end of page footnotes, and since this setting is document-wide, you can't use any other footnote style.
- This fake footnote will increment the footnotes count.
- Most annoying: the insertion point that is bound to the content can't be deleted. It is good that you can define at which exact point you want your bottom block to be pushed to the next page. However, you will have to make the insertion point invisible, and there is no pretty way of doing it. I guess the “least bad” way to do it is to make the text color 100% transparent, and put the insertion point at the end of a paragraph, so that its spacing does not impact the text around.
Use the inspector to change the table cell formatting symbol.
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Best Answer
A table in Pages inherits its page break settings from the line on which it is located. (You can imagine the table is a huge character on a line).
To change the behavior of that line place the cursor at the end of the line above the table and press arrow right, moving the cursor to the table row. (Sometimes you'll see a blinking cursor along the left side of the table).
Now, choose Text formatting and click "More" and set up your paginations and breaks to your liking.
This way you can change the behavior of each table to break across lines or not as you see fit, and you don't have to change the behavior of all other text to do it...