Alternative way of formatting a glossary in Publisher 2

[stevepc]

I have transferred by three-volume book from InDesign into Publisher 2.5.5 (on Windows 10) and, with help of this forum, have learned a lot. Now I come to the penultimate bit to add my 14-page glossary with 125 entries, and I belatedly discover that in Publisher 2 tables cannot flow over multiple pages.

Is there a way of formatting the glossary, without using a table, to get the desired effect.

I have included a basic illustration of what I need.

(I suppose all I am really asking for is a table that spans several pages, but in the absence of that…  I don't want to have to go back to InDesign.)

[MikeTO]

One option is to create a separate document for the table. Make the page 14 times as tall as the table in your document. Create the table. After the table is completely finalized, copy the table into the main document. Duplicate the page 13 times and delete the parts you don't need from each of the separate tables.

Or if you want to get fancy, use pinned frames, one frame per row, and add columns to the frames and use column breaks. See attached for an example.

test.afpub

My tables are relatively simple so I do it the old fashioned way - I use regular paragraphs with paragraph decorations for borders and manually wrap the text in each "cell". It's a pain to manually wrap text but for tables of 2 pages it's easy and they flow nicely.