Setting KeepWithNext on a row

Aspose.Words Product Family
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I’m currently building a table up using rows and cells, which is different to the way ive done it in the past of simply calling builder.InsertCell(). I need to do it this way as after it is build I need to reprocess the table changing merges and borders.
The problem i now have is the ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext property no longer works. Where as before I would simply call builder.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = true every time I called InertCell(), as I’m now building the table object this option doesn’t work. Is there a similar way for me to do this for an individual Aspose.Words.Row, my code example is below and any help would be grateful:

Aspose.Words.Row row = new Aspose.Words.Row(doc);
//is there something like:
row.RowFormat.KeepWithNext = true;
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Hi
Thank you for your interest in Aspose products. I think that you can try using AllowBreakAcrossPages property. See the following link for more information.
https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words.tables/rowformat/allowbreakacrosspages/
I hope that this will help you. Please let me know if you would like to know something else.
Best regards.

3

Hi,
Yes that helps me to stop the text in each row from splitting onto a new page, I’m also looking to keep the whole of the table together. The way I do it manually when the document is open in Word is to select every row apart from the last one, then select:
Format -> Paragraph -> Line and Page Breaks -> Keep with next.
This then keeps all the rows within that table together and if moves the table to a new page if nexessary. Is there a way this can be done in Aspose?
Thanks

4

Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. I think that you can use ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext property. For example see the following code.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = true;
builder.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = false;
builder.CellFormat.Width = 100;
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
    {
        builder.InsertCell();
    }
    builder.EndRow();
}
builder.EndTable();
doc.Save(@"378_103895_chrishop6\out.doc");

I hope that this will help you.
Best regards.

5

Hi,
Yes that would work but I’m creating a table using the Aspose.Word.Table object, and then populating this table with rows and cells. so for example:

Aspose.Words.Table table = builder.StartTable();
Aspose.Words.Row row = new Aspose.Words.Row(doc);
row.RowFormat.AllowAutoFit = true;
//this doesn't work
builder.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = true;
row.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = false;
Aspose.Words.Cell cell = new Aspose.Words.Cell(doc);
Aspose.Words.Paragraph p1 = new Aspose.Words.Paragraph(doc);
p1.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = paragraphAlignment;
Run run = new Run(doc, cellText);
p1.AppendChild(run);
cell.AppendChild(p1);
row.AppendChild(cell);
table.Rows.Add(row); 
builder.EndTable();
6

Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. This will work if you create paragraphs using DocumentBuilder class. I modified your code. See the following.

builder.InsertParagraph();
Aspose.Words.Table table = builder.StartTable();
Aspose.Words.Row row = new Aspose.Words.Row(doc);
row.RowFormat.AllowAutoFit = true;
row.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = false;
Aspose.Words.Cell cell = new Aspose.Words.Cell(doc);
cell.CellFormat.Width = 100;
Aspose.Words.Paragraph p1 = new Aspose.Words.Paragraph(doc);
p1.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Center;
p1.ParagraphFormat.KeepWithNext = true;
Run run = new Run(doc, "cellText");
p1.AppendChild(run);
cell.AppendChild(p1);
row.Cells.Add(cell);
table.Rows.Add(row);
builder.EndTable();

I hope that this will help you.
Best regards.

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That worked, thanks a lot for all your help with this issue