Trying to split a table (so I can format across pages)

Question

Hi, I'm fairly new to a Mac and to using Pages 09 (I picked a great time to change systems when writing up something important!)
How do I get a Table to split (as you can easily with MS Word) so that I can easily format my tables and text across multiple pages? At the moment I either have the title of a cell and then the text linked to it split across two pages - which looks silly - or I have to insert returns into the cell above it so the heading of a cell and it's contents both appear on the next page - but which then also makes the previous cell look silly with so much empty space.
I can find all the options for splitting cells into more rows or columns but not an option to just split a table. Am I missing something or have Apple missed something?

Answer 1

HavanaNights wrote:
. Am I missing something or have Apple missed something?
You missed nothing and Apple missed nothing too.
The engineers are free to make the choices which they think beeing the best ones.
It's really easy to achieve your goal.
Activate the mode "Preview"
The slider which is at the bottom of the window allow us to adjust the table width so that it fits in the page.
In the Table inspector, we may adjust the rows height so that the wanted number of them appear in a single page without the holes generated by empty rows insertion.
Oops, I wrote my response for Numbers, not Pages.
but what I wrote may be done in Pages too.
For the width, we have no slider but we may adjust it thru the Inspector of Measures.
For the number of rows same scheme in Pages and Numbers.
Jean-Marie … was inserted in the table to illustrate a script which may easily remove unwanted rows and, from my point of view, this one was unwanted
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 25 mars 2010 19:38:48