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Ok, thanks Stefan. The text box solution does work - but if I
convert
the text box to a frame the problem re-appears. So it really has to
do
with some fundamental magic about tables that allows them to behave
as
I want inside of a text box but not inside a frame. Ug.


I believe the problem with frames is that they don't really have any
borders: "frame borders" are actually applied to the *text* in the
frame, and inserting a table messes that up. So this can't be fixed
(unless you can use text boxes, instead).

In any case, because of the problem of the frames overlapping my
footnotes, I've decided to simply to have my boxes inline and make
the
table always as wide as the box; it ain't that pretty but it's the
best
solution I've found.


I'm glad you did find a workable solution (even if it isn't ideal).

It looks like someone else ran into this a while ago:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...72fde9495d6423

Thanks for the description of the frame placement options. Too bad
Word there isn't documentation that comes with Word 2003 that
explains
this stuff, or am I not looking in the right place?


Clearly, Word 2003 context help could be better (hopefully it will be
improved in the next version).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP