microsoft wordmicrosoft-word-2007microsoft-word-2010
I want to repeat the first two rows of the table as the table header on each page of a Word document.
I can repeat the first row by checking "Repeat row as table header" in the Table properties but I don't know how to make the top two rows repeat. Any ideas?
Both the highlighted lines will now be considered a header:
The headers/footers are per section. So you can have a first page header (and a "regular" header) in Section 1, but not in section 2.
When the insertion point is in the header area of the section you want to change, with the ribbon showing "Design" and "Header and footer tools" you should be able to uncheck the "Different First Page box.
If the header on the third page shows "Section 9", it sounds as if you either have a lot of continuous page section breaks, or hidden text. You should be able to display most of these things using the show/hide button (Home tab, Paragraph group).
It's also possible, though rather less likely, that some of your document's content is being inserted by field codes in which case you need to use Alt-F9 to toggle between "field code" view and "field results" view" to see what is going on.
It's also possible that your document is corrupt.
Best Answer
You can set the top two rows to repeat as header. You just have to select them at the same time when changing the option so that they both to repeat together.
I don't have Word 2007 or 2010 handy to take screenshots of, so these are showing 2003, but the process is the same in all three.
First select both rows at the same time, then access table properties:
Now you can set both rows to repeat as a header together:
And both these rows will now repeat, job done: