Split table vertical

Sjaak Weelen

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Jul 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/22/00

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I want to split a table vertical: columns 1 to 4 on the left page and
5 to 10 on the right page.
Any suggestions?

Sjaak Weelen
Netherlands

~ Dian Chesney ~ [mvp]

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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I don't think you can SPLIT a table vertically the way you can
separate a table horizontally. But you can put two next to each other
and then you can fairly easily copy/paste the info from those cells
into a new table.

See how this works for you...

* Start a page
* Click Format/Columns and choose 2 columns
* Create a table with 4 columns
* now click Insert/Break/ColumnBreak to create the second column (NOTE
you should click Tools/Options/View/All so you can SEE the column
markers as a way to help you work around them and see the hidden code
while working.)
* create your second table in this column

Now you can highlight columns 1-4 from your original, click Ctrl/C (to
copy) and them go to the new table, highlight the new 4 columns and
click Ctrl/V (to paste) and the old data will be easily dumped into
your new split table. Do the same for the second set.

Hope this helps....

Dian Chesney
Technical Consultant
& Microsoft MVP
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Sjaak Weelen

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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Dian

Thank you for quick reply. But (there is always a 'but' (;-)) it is
not a solution to my problem. I will rephrase my problem.
For a questionnaire I want on the left page question-phrases. For
clarification and support I want on the right page text that stays
always on the same height with the question. Thus when I put extra
text for example to question 2 then not only must the text of question
3 go downwards (which is common) but also the support text of question
3 on the right page must go down with the same amount of lines. Even
so visa versa: When support text get more or less lines text, the text
on the left page must go down or up. In effect: each question keeps
his support text always 'level'.

Some what like this (I am not sure if this will appear in the same way
on your screen as on my screen):

LEFT PAGE RIGHT PAGE

Question 1 Support of question 1
Question Text [ Support Text [
.. ..
..] ..
..
..]

Question 2 Support of question 2
Question Text [ Support Text [
.. ..
..] ..
..
..]

Question 3 Support of question 3
Question Text [ Support Text [
.. ..
..] ..
..
..]

NEW SITUATION:

LEFT PAGE RIGHT PAGE

Question 1 Support of question 1
Question Text [ Support Text [
.. ..
..] ..
..
..]

Question 2 Support of question 2
Question Text [ Support Text [
EXTRA TEXT ..
EXTRA TEXT ..
.. ..
..] ..]

Question 3 Support of question 3
Question Text [ Support Text [
.. ..
..] ..
..
..]

Sjaak Weelen.

kitta

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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Only with a cut and paste, I think.

Cut columns 5-10, paste it onto the right page, pull out the right table border up to the right page margin (if that's what you want), highlight the table, right click on top of the highlighted table and choose Distribute rows evenly (or, without highlighting, adjust the columns individually).

Go back to columns 1-4 on the left page, and adjust them as well.

Kitta

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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I suspect this won't work, though, because the rows will almost certainly
have to be set to Auto height, and when columns 5-10 are cut and pasted onto
another page, they will become a separate table, and the row heights in the
two tables will then be independent.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA

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Kitta

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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In your initial query you simply asked how to split ten columns between two pages - now you are talking about only two columns: a question column on the left page, and an answer column on the right page (though being on different pages they aren't exactly columns any more, but just ordinary text) and the real problem is keeping the text synchronised over the two pages.

Is it important that the questions and answers are on two different pages? Because if that is the case, then I can only see a lot of fiddling to achieve what you want. Solutions could be tables with fixed-height rows for both questions and answers; text boxes for the questions so that an individual question can be moved up or down according the starting point of the answer; or just adding and deleting returns between the questions - but all of them awkward and difficult.

Otherwise, wouldn't turning the pages to landscape and using a table be a good compromise?

Kitta

Sjaak Weelen <JMHW...@hetnet.nl> wrote in message news:397ab826...@news.hetnet.nl...
| Dian
|
| Thank you for quick reply. But .................I want on the left page question-phrases. For

| clarification and support I want on the right page text that stays

| always on the same height with the question. Thus ...............

|
| LEFT PAGE RIGHT PAGE
|
| Question 1 Support of question 1
| Question Text [ Support Text [
| .. ..
| ..] ..
| ..
| ..]
|
| Question 2 Support of question 2
| Question Text [ Support Text [
| .. ..
| ..] ..
| ..
| ..]
|
| Question 3 Support of question 3
| Question Text [ Support Text [
| .. ..
| ..] ..
| ..
| ..]

[snip]

Kitta

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Jul 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/23/00

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Yes. I didn't realise the rows had to match across the two pages.
Kitta

Suzanne S. Barnhill <sbar...@zebra.net> wrote in message news:uwYxoaL9$GA.282@cppssbbsa05...

| border up to the right page margin ...............[snip]|

| Kitta
|
| Sjaak Weelen <JMHW...@hetnet.nl> wrote in message

John McGhie [MVP - Word]

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Jul 24, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/24/00

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Sjaak:

1) Make a table, add your questions, one per row.

2) Add enough rows to fill the page.

3) Set the row height to Exactly and a measurement.

4) Copy this table onto the next page.

5) Select it all and press Delete (not Cut). This removes the content of
the cells without removing the table itself.

6) Type your supporting information in the newly-blank rows.

Because the row heights are set to "Exactly" and you copied the first table,
the second one will line up perfectly.

If the supporting information is longer than the questions, create the
right-hand-page table first, and copy it to the left page.

You do not need to use any border lines, you can turn them off if you don't
need them.

Of course, the tables must begin at the very top of each page so they are
correctly positioned with respect to each other.

Hope this helps.

In microsoft.public.word.tables on Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:41:13 GMT,
JMHW...@hetnet.nl (Sjaak Weelen) wrote:

Please post follow-up questions to the newsgroup so that all may follow the thread.

John McGhie <jo...@mcghie-information.com.au>
Consultant Technical Writer
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Sydney, Australia (GMT +10 hrs) +61 (04) 1209 1410

Patricia Klos

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Jul 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/26/00

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Create your two-column table, then select the table and format it into a
two-column column. Works great.