Thanks, Suzanne.

Unfortunately, that technique can cause a break (and a bunch of white space)
on the previous page. Rather frustrating! Here is this expensive, widely used
word-processing program that can't automatically position tables (and other
objects) in a standard manner. Maybe Microsoft will change it in a future
version.

Regardless, thank you for your assistance!

- Matt



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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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"Matt Baretich" Matt wrote in message
...
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