Word: Header row won’t repeat revisited
October 8, 2010I was trying to get the header row to repeat on a large and long table in a client’s Word document. But no matter what I did, it just wouldn’t repeat on the next and subsequent pages. I looked for a selected paragraph mark above it, but there was nothing there.
Then I selected a later row in the table to change its properties and noticed that the Header row repeat check box was checked, but dimmed/grayed out. Hmmm… I checked more rows — they all had the Header row repeat check box selected but dimmed out.
So on a whim I selected the entire table, went to Table Properties > Row tab and found that the Header row repeat check box was still selected but now it was clickable. Aha! I cleared that check box and clicked OK.
Then I selected just the header row and reapplied the Header row repeat to it. Now it worked!
Someone, somewhere, sometime had applied Header row repeat to the entire table and that’s why the real header row would not repeat on the subsequent pages. An easy fix — once I figured it out.
See also:
- Header row won’t repeat: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/word-header-row-wont-repeat/
[Links last checked October 2010]
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Worked for me. Many Thanks.
This solution did not work for me . . . at first.
The issue turned out to be that I was operating in Compatibility Mode on a .doc file, not a .docx. Once I saved as .docx, I solved the problem using the solution given above.
(Perhaps every row is checked as a header row when Compatibility Mode is first invoked?)
Thanks! Solved my problem on a large table. Love the interwebs.
Thanks for eliminating my frustration
Thanks for helping this worked!
Yeeeeaah! Finally! Thanks for the tip!
This problem has been bothering me for years. Thanks for finally providing a solution :)
Solved my problem too. Been working on a document that someone else created and struggling to get the header row to repeat. Tried another solution I found on Google, but that didn’t work, then I ended up here. Thanks a lot. Sorry I don’t use Paypal so I can’t buy you a coffee, but just know that you have made my day. I will probably be able to apply this solution to many other corporate documents.
it works thank you
Thanks this tip helped me as well. I think you have developed a work around for a “bug”.