[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Walter

Walter Mitchell Pelowski wrote:
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I'm fairly proficient with styles and it's not a situation with errant "keep
with next" styles or anything like that. It just seems to me that Word is
not sophisticated enough to calculate where the bottom of the image is going
to fall (based on the dimensions of the image and the location of the
paragraph) to push it to the next page if the situation calls for it.

I know I can use inline images but aesthetically, that's a bad idea for the
images to which I'm referring. These images are ideally suited to floating
left or right on a paragraph and because they directly pertain to a specific
paragraph or paragraph(s) it makes sense to anchor them to the paragraph so
the content stays intact.

Am I grossly misunderstanding or not utilizing some feature in Word or is
this a glaring deficiency in the program? I've had this problem for years
now and despite my best attempts to search for an answer (both on the Web and
in books) I have not been able to find a solution.

I don't think you're missing something. After more than a decade of
working in Word, I'm accepting the paradigm that Word's floating
pictures and automatic pagination are mutually exclusive (exactly
because of the described effects near page margins): If I need the
latter, I refuse to use Shapes. If I'm forced to Shapes, I will have to
inspect all of them after a major page reflow.

Sorry, I don't have a better solution, either.
Robert
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