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>I am working on a US Government contract with specific requirements,
>some of which are absurd as some of you may know.
>
>When a table spans multiple pages, the header rows must say that the
>table is (continued). An example would look as follows (spanning 3 pages).
>
>Table 1 - Configuration List for PC 001
>Table 1 - Configuration List for PC 001 (continued)
>Table 1 - Configuration List for PC 001 (continued)
>etc...
>
>Since the header row text automatically repeats, I can't edit the second
>and third page headers.
>
(snip)
>1. I would really like to stop working from Government specs written
>before I was born.
>2. I would really like to see the Government update their requirements.
>3. I would really like to stop paying taxes that contribute to the
>inefficiency that is created/perpetuated by working on specs written
>before I was born (or the creation of the PC).
I think that you will probably have to do it using the title of the table in
the page header, as described here:
using sections to control the header, and to distinguish it from the
regular headers in your document.
However old the requirement, why do you think it is unreasonable? Seems
eminently sensible to me. It depends on the table of course (I guess if column
one were a sequential index number starting at "1", it wouldn't add much value)
but there have been plenty of times I wanted to to do this. Seems like a
blatently obvious capability to have for long tables.
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