Is it possible to float a table to the bottom of a page in Word 2007?
I am making a template for revisable documents for work (specs, routines etc) and I want the front page to contain the document title, and a table of revisions. I want to float this table to the bottom of the page. So as I add rows to it, it grows upwards towards the title (which is at top of page, and not middle.)
Is this possible?
asked Jun 2, 2010 at 9:11
Assuming that you are using a page break on your title page, then
- Insert your table after the title (I’d insert it on a new line so that it doesn’t have the title’s style)
- Right click the table and select “Table Properties…”.
- In the “Table” tab, “Text wrapping”, select “Around”, which makes the nearby “Positioning…” button active.
- In the “Positioning” dialog, select vertical position as “Bottom” relative to “Margin”.
When adding to the table, it should now grow upward.
answered Jul 26, 2010 at 13:07
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I ended up with inserting a table that covered the whole page. One column, two rows. Bottom row aligns to bottom.
Not the most elegant solution, but it works.
answered Jun 21, 2010 at 8:18
Great question. No ‘proper’ way to float / align a table at the bottom as far as I can see, your best bet would be to put the table in the footer (not ideal I know, but does achieve the appearance you want)
answered Jun 2, 2010 at 10:15
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Floating a Table am writing a description and am having a hard time placing the image in the attached file. This is a Word 2000 file. Below the image is a one-row, one-column table that contains the caption. There are several of these in my description. Please see the attached photo.
Is there a better way to insert the image and caption? There are several of these in the description. Please see the second question in the attached file.
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Are you using Insert Caption to insert the caption? Why a table rather than a text box? What is the wrapping setting on the image and caption? You could put the image inside a one-cell table and include the caption in the same table. Set the wratpping for the table.
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I’ve got a more recent version of Word and I can’t replicate the issue on my version. In earlier versions of Word, I’ve had problems with list elements and text wrapping but I rarely do this and maybe Microsoft have fixed it now. It appears that the ‘To adjust…’ paragraph has a Keep with next setting which might be causing the flow issue on Word 2000. Does the text flow back up if you change the style of those paragraphs to ‘Normal’?
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I do have Word 2002 and can try in that, but I need a sample document.
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I tried to send a sample document but couldn’t figger out how to do that… where can I look for help?
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How do I send a sample document to this forum, and is there a file size limit?
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The way I would do it would be to set the whole thing up in a table, sort of like this. Then just make the borders invisible by selecting «No Borders», or set them to white, so they don’t show at all against the white page.
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Thank you for your replies. They helped me to solve my problem!
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I have a Word 2007 .dotx template which has a table having 4rows and 1column and have text wrapping as «Around» and positioned Vertical as «Bottom» Relative to «Page».
Converting from Word 2007 to Word 2013 ,the table in this template kills the format. It adds 2 additional pages and the table rows splits as 1st Row of a table going to the bottom of second page and other 3 rows going to the top of the third page (in Word 2013).
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Also in a new Word 2013 document,I tried to make a table of 4rows and 1column and by going to its table properties and position it vertically at the «Bottom» relative to «Page» ,the table is splitting in two pages (margins remain the same
as default) as 1st row going to the bottom of the first page and other 3 rows going to top of second page.But when i make the same table in Word 2007 and make the same properties the table remains at the bottom of first page without splitting.
I am working on Word-Addin 2013 project which should use a table positioned vertically at the bottom of a page in a .dotx template,but due to above issue i am unable to do the same.
The same can be done in Word 2007.How to resolve this?
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Hi mrast2
Word 2007 was the first version to support «floating» tables. In that version, a floating table could not split across pages — it had to stay on one page.
In the versions since, floating tables can split across pages and do this by default.
In File/Options/Advanced, at the very bottom there’s a list of «Compatibility options»: Don’t break wrapped tables across pages» will use the Word 2007 behavior. This will only be available, however, if you have a document in «Compatibiltiy Mode». The
new 2013 layout engine, which simplifies a lot of things to improve performance (especially for layout out pages in the Web apps), has dropped almost all the Compatibility Options.In this case, you’d need to put the table in a frame (or perhaps a text box, although that won’t grow automatically with the table) in order to keep the table on one page.
Please note that your question is not developer-related and would be better asked in the «Communities» where you’ll find a lot more people who work with Word as end-users. You probably would have gotten an answer a long time ago — not so many people here
who work with Word at that level who would recognize this. Next time, try here:http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP,
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Word 2007 was the first version to support «floating» tables.
Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP, my blog
Actually, Word 2003 (or possibly even Word 2002) was the first version to support floating tables.
Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP
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Well, it appears all your attempts are accessing only the content and not the structure that’s positioning the table (frame).
Try something more like:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(«NameOfBookmark»).Range.Frames(1).Copy
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