More document trouble

[RogerBlair]

The problem with tables has been solved, but I have another problem.

LO Version:
Version: 25.8.0.4 (X86_64)
Build ID: 48f00303701489684e67c38c28aff00cd5929e67
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Windows:
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
Installed on ‎6/‎5/‎2025
OS build 26100.4946
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.197.0

In the document linked below, there’s a problem with two the four tables. The first and third tables are fine, on the second and fourth tables, the page with the heading seems to cut off right below the heading, so I can’t put the table directly under the heading. The cursor jumps from the second line below the table to the table itself, bypassing all the blank lines on the page, so I can’t move the table up to just under the title. This file was unzipped from another file, if that makes any difference.

Here’s the document:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zgxzbtj69wae5qw0mqyk9/Easter7YrB.odt?rlkey=jdp2ctdcaesklc5tpy8nwbwxy&st=60f7k9ki&dl=0

Again, thanks for the help.

[Grantler]

There are a lot of formatting problems.
As a hint: I applied Heading 2 to some headings, so they start on a new page (style altered).
All your text is directly formatted and not connected to paragraph styles. Partly the paragraphs are connected so that you have weird results (Heading 2 will remain “alone” on the page). I corrected slightly.

For further advice ask in new questions. Thank you.

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Easter7YrB_Grantler.odt (17.4 KB)

[ajlittoz]

The cause in your table not splitting as you’d like is in its configuration: you allowed the table to split but you didn’t allow cells to do so.

In addition, contents of all your tables are badly structured: your left columns are made of a single paragraph because you erroneously used line breaks Ctl+Enter instead of paragraph breaks Enter. Note this frequently occurs when pasting text from the internet.

Globally, your text is an awful mess of direct formatting. Without styles you won’t be able to layout your document as you expect it. Notably, using empty paragraphs to vertically space is doomed to fail (both as a way to space text and to synchronise columns in tables).

Also, there is no way to keep a paragraph on the same page as a table through Keep with next paragraph parameter. You can indeed keep a table with next paragraph on the same page through table properties but this is the reverse of what you want (the feature was intended for table caption). So, you need some work around like an extra column row (qualified as a heading) with different border settings and different paragraph style applied to it.

Don’t damage the heading hierarchy as you did. This is pointless, even in this specific case.

To make things worse, your document either originate from a DOCX source or has been edited with M$ Word which left polluting remnants" in the style dictionary (and probably in the document structure).