Re: Positioning a table

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From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:32:22 -0600

The best you can do in current Word versions is to position the (wrapped)
table as Top or Bottom Relative to Margins. It will always be on the same
page as the paragraph to which it is anchored (which should be the one in
which it is referenced), but if you position it as Top, it may be above the
text reference. 

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Matt Baretich" <Matt Baretich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F55520B4-633C-46E8-867C-CDEA6DEA111C@microsoft.com...
> I'm working on a book chapter. Here's the problem. Suppose I have a table
> (about one-half page long) that I want to appear at the first available
space
> after the paragraph that refers to the table.
>
> This could be immediately below the paragraph if there's enough room left
on
> the page. Then the next paragraph would start right after the table.
>
> However, if there's not enough room left on the page I would want the
table
> to go to the top of the next page. And I would want the next paragraph to
> immediately follow the reference paragraph (not leave a bunch of white
space
> on the page).
>
> That seems like a very basic text layout function but I can't figure out
how
> to do it in Word. I could manually position the table but I hate to have
to
> check each table and, if necessary, reposition it just because I do some
> editing early in the document.
>
> Help! Thanks!
>
> - Matt

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