Hi, I'm having a freaking hard time getting a document formatted the way I need it. What I need is a list of publications on the right and a spot on the left to add an "R" and/or a * to denote something. So I made a table..one row two columns. When I went to paste in the 60 or so publications, I lost a pile of them at the bottom of the page. The information didn't continue on to the next page. So I've tried adding rows and splitting the table and it's all a flipping mess now. I can't even copy the contents of one table into another because it just seems to create a new row..which is what I don't want because this list will be edited and so will get shorter and longer as things are removed or added. Any ideas?

Am I correct in that you want to put the 60 entries into the one row?

Yes because I have no need to split then up, they all belong to this one category. I was sure I'd used tables before where when I got to the end of the page it just continued on to the next page.But when I paste the information in it now it's as though it disappears below the bottom of the page, as if the page isn't long enough, which it isn't technically and which is why I thought it would just continue the table onto the next page. Now I have the text into different tables which didn't work and I can't copy and paste it back into one table because it ends up putting a table into a table I think.

You should be able to get the table to continue. When you created the table, did you choose AutoFit to contents? And then when you pasted in more information, did you make sure the cursor was within the table row? A possible option - can you just paste the information and then use a Tab on each row for your additional information in the second column?

Holy smokes I got it! I first joined all the tables together so I had a bunch of rows and two columns. Then I merged all the cells together and predictably the bottom publications disappeared off the page. Then I fiddled with the settings and unchecked the one that had the row height set to 22". I have no idea why that was set like that. Anyways, once that once unchecked and I had allow row to break across page checked off, voila, it was fixed! :) Good mood restored..:) Thanks for posting anyways Lobster..:) Sue