Table cell spanning pages

Hi all,
I'm having a rather major problem with Pages. I've managed to convince my sister-in-law to buy an iBook and star using Pages for her school work, however we've encountered a particularily difficult problem:
Pages (and AppleWorks) does not allow her to use table cells that span more than one page! Not only is this a problem because she has whole load of old MSWord documents that she needs to read, but she definitely needs to continue working like this. First because it's the only sensible thing to do, second because her teachers require her to.
Here's the problem: She creates a table, 2x8 cells (for example). In the rightmost column she generally writes quite a lot of text, often so much that it does not fit inside a cell that is limited vertically to the size of the page. In MSWord, this cell automatically wraps to the next page, however in Pages, the cell simply stops growing and the text appears to continue "behind" the next page.
We've tried to devise other layouts for her work, but tables seem to be the only feasible alternative. Using columns would not help her at all, text boxes would be too cumbersome, manually splitting the cells would make the document extremely difficult to edit (all her documents are, for a very long time, a work in progress, so editing happens all the time).
Can anyone help us out here? I'm || this close to going out to buy her a copy of MS Office, as no other word processor I've tried (Pages, AppleWorks, NeoOffice/J, OpenOffice) manages to deal with this properly. This would be a major admission of defeat.
Anyone?
Thanks,
/Eirik

Welcome to Apple Discussions Elrik
I have a Pages document with a single table that spans 11 pages. Unfortunately, it took a bit of fiddling with it & I can't remember how I did it. This is a table I had converted from AppleWorks, which also doesn't easily allow tables to span page breaks. I think I got it to do it by inserting new rows in the middle of the existing table. Then I would select & drag the contents from an unconnected table on another page into these new rows.

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