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How to get the text within a Table to flow over the page?

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    • April 9, 2022 at 11:03 am #14364090
      Andy Mcgroarty
      Member

      Hi there.

      I’d like to know how to get the text on the right hand row of a 2 column table to flow onto the next page.

      At the moment there is a gap at the bottom of the page because the next row has too much text to fit on the current page: https://ibb.co/kxg68LY

      Thanks

    • April 9, 2022 at 12:11 pm #14364092
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Well, first of all, that looks like a totally fascinating book. I love the concept of Interclusivity, which I had not heard of.
      Anyway, as for the problem you’ve got… yeah, that’s a limitation of InDesign — a single row cannot break across pages. Some people fake it by splitting the row into two. Or they avoid it by setting up this kind of layout using something other than a table. (For example, you could have a heading, followed by a tab, followed by the description… and then make the heading “hang” with a large left indent and a negative first line indent.

      • April 9, 2022 at 1:54 pm #14364104
        Andy Mcgroarty
        Member

        Thank you for your quick response David! And thank you for your explanation, i’ll look into your suggestions, splitting the row might work.

        When the book’s out i’ll send you a link ;-)

        Thanks again!

    • April 9, 2022 at 9:31 pm #14364106
      Steve Davis
      Participant

      Maybe we can’t do it because of our ‘western capitalist mindsets’ ?

    • April 10, 2022 at 12:37 am #14364107
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      You can try with smaller text size, leading, sans serif condesed font…

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