Table Option to "Auto-Split" at Bottom of a Page

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Olivier Beltrami
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Table Option to "Auto-Split" at Bottom of a Page

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I am spending a lot of time splitting every single row of my tables so that I do not have dozens of half-empty pages because the table was too big to fit at the bottom of the current page. This is a pain on long topics/tables because after every split the editor goes back to the top of the topic and I have to scroll-down again to split the next row. To make matters worse, if I then need to re-size columns or add columns I must do it individually to every row. :x

Am I missing an obvious solution ?

If not, could you add an option in the table formats to "auto-split" (ie. if the table does not fit entirely at the bottom of the current page, split it internally in H&M, but not change the file). An option to specify the minimum number of rows that should appear in the 1st part would be useful to avoid just having the titles row on one page and all the other rows on the next page.
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Re: Table Option to "Auto-Split" at Bottom of a Pa

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Olivier Beltrami wrote:Am I missing an obvious solution ?
Hi Olivier, long time no hear! :)

I don't think you're missing anything but a workaround does occur to me, although it's only really practical for new projects: You could standardize on 2- or 3-row tables with no spaces between them, then they "split" elegantly whenever they need to.

This looks best with tables without gridlines, of course, because you can't define "no gridlines" for just the top and bottom of the table where the two tables meet in H&M. But even with gridlines it looks reasonably OK, provided the lines are just 1 pixel wide.

Not perfect, but perhaps a beginning... :?
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