An addendum... you may want to investigate simply breaking your single table into multiple tables. That would allow you to simply apply a table style (if you're using Word 2007/2010) which would allow you not to have to run "format this table" code). It also would have the added benefit of allowing you to apply true "header row" formatting to the first row (or rows) of each table, so that when a pesky page break gets in the way, you'll still see your header row across various pages.