Keeping lines of a question together
You will generally want to keep all parts of a question together on one page. However, there may be some situations when you want a question to be presented across two or more pages--a very large grid question, for example. You can control whether questions and information items are kept together across page breaks in the Looks.
There are a number of settings in Word that affect a document's pagination. Two of these settings affect how questionnaire items break across pages when you apply the Look:
▪Allow row to break across pages
Clearing this table row check box when you design the Look, ensures that all information in the row is kept on the same page when you apply the Look. Selecting this check box means that text in the row may split over two pages. By default, Word selects this check box.
▪Keep with next
Selecting this paragraph formatting check box in a Look ensures that the entire question is kept on the same page when you apply the Look. Clearing the check box means that the question may split over multiple pages. If you select this check box for the entire Look, you ensure that a question is kept on one page.
There is no way to indicate that a question continues on the next page when you apply a Look formatted to break over pages. So, you will usually want to select Keep with next. If you design Looks to break across pages, you should select rows in the Look to act as headings. This prevents part, or all, of the answer portion of the question appearing without its associated question text.
When you select rows for headings, you must select at least the first row in the Look. If you want the third row in the Look to be the heading row, you must select the first and second rows as well. You cannot change the heading rows that appear on second and subsequent pages, for example, by the addition of “Continued” text.
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