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Word repeats a table's first row and the rows straight after it that set tableHeader, and ignores tableHeader on rows further down. Document this, and show how to give each part of a long table its own repeating header by making each part a table of its own. Closes #2425 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The guide and API documentation could lead users to expect an unmarked first row to repeat, leaving their tables without repeating headers. Clarify the requirement before merging; the issue is limited to documentation. Pre-merge checks |
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Issue #2425 permits either runtime handling or documentation of the tblHeader limitation and workaround. The PR documents that only the first row and consecutive following tableHeader rows repeat,… |
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The whole-PR diff contains only the usage/tables.md documentation update and the tableHeader JSDoc update. Both changes directly address issue #2425. No unrelated runtime or structural changes are… |
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- Line 242: Clarify in docs/usage/tables.md lines 242-242 that the first table
row repeats only when it sets tableHeader to true, and that consecutive
following rows must also set it to true. Update the tableHeader JSDoc in
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Clarify that the first row must set tableHeader: true. Word does not repeat the first row automatically when tableHeader is omitted. State this requirement in both locations; consecutive following rows also need tableHeader: true to repeat. (learn.microsoft.com)
docs/usage/tables.md#L242-L242: Explain that the first row repeats only when it setstableHeader: true.src/file/table/table-row/table-row-properties.ts#L65-L66: Document the same first-row requirement in the JSDoc.
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-Only rows at the top of a table repeat. Word repeats the table's first row, and the rows straight after it that also set `tableHeader`, and ignores `tableHeader` on any row further down.
+Only rows at the top of a table repeat. Word repeats the table's first row when it sets `tableHeader: true`, followed by consecutive rows that also set `tableHeader: true`. Word ignores `tableHeader` on any row further down.- * Only the table's first row and the rows straight after it that also set this repeat. Word ignores it on
+ * The first row repeats only if it sets `tableHeader` to true. Consecutive rows after it also repeat if they
+ * set `tableHeader` to true. Word ignores this property on📍 Affects 2 files
docs/usage/tables.md#L242-L242(this comment)src/file/table/table-row/table-row-properties.ts#L65-L66
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Review comment at @docs/usage/tables.md at line 242:
Clarify in docs/usage/tables.md lines 242-242 that the first table row repeats
only when it sets tableHeader to true, and that consecutive following rows must
also set it to true. Update the tableHeader JSDoc in
src/file/table/table-row/table-row-properties.ts lines 65-66 with the same
first-row requirement and consecutive-row behavior.
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Closes #2425
What
tableHeaderwritesw:tblHeader, which Word only honours on the table's first row and the rows straight after it that also set it. A row further down withtableHeader: trueis ignored, so the first header keeps repeating on every page, even past the later "headers". This is how ISO 29500 definestblHeader, and the layout engine already follows it (paginate.tscounts header rows up to the first row withouttableHeader), but the docs didn't say so.Changes
usage/tables.md, Repeat row): explain that only rows at the top of a table repeat, and add a live example that gives each part of a long table its own repeating header by making each part a table, with a heading between them so Word doesn't join them. This is what Word itself does when you split a table to give it a new header.tableHeader: the same caveat, so it shows in editors.I didn't make
Tablesplit itself at a mid-table header row: it would silently change the document's structure, and break vertical merges, table-style first-row and banding formatting, and anything that expects one table.Summary by CodeRabbit