Tips. If you don’t yet have a table and want to experiment with one before splitting it, click the “Insert” tab to access the “Table” button.
After clicking the button, drag the cursor down and to the right to size the table with your preferred columns and rows. Once you’ve entered the data, you can try the split table feature.
If you positioned the cursor in the wrong place and the table split differently than you needed, simply click the “Undo” button, which is the curvy arrow pointing to the left near the top left corner of the screen. This puts the table back together, so you can try again.
This sets the page break option for the entire table. Word 2007, Word 2010, and Word 2013. Place the insertion point in the table. Go to the Layout tab under Table Tools. In the Table group, click Properties. Click the Row tab. Click to select the Allow row to break across pages check box. This sets the page break option for the entire table. If you have a table broken across two pages in your Word document, you can follow below steps to keep the table rows in the same page in Word. Select the table which breaks across two pages, and then click Layout (under Table Tools) > Properties. See screenshot: 2. In the popping out Table Properties dialog box, (1) enable the Row tab, (2) uncheck the Allow row to break across pages option, and (3) click the OK button. See screenshot: 3.