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