Select the whole table you are working on.Once you've done this, follow these steps: This lesson assumes you have already created a table that spans two or more pages (or will do by the time you've finished creating it). Tell Microsoft Word not to split table rows across pages Note that this lesson covers Microsoft Word 2007, 20 for Windows, and Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac. force Word to insert a page break before the row rather than in the middle of the row), this lesson will show you how to do it. If you'd rather have Word break tables up between pages so that each row is kept intact and not split across two pages (i.e. In particular, Word will split individual rows across two pages if it needs to. Tables in Microsoft Word are great, but the default settings for tables are sometimes not what you want.