Hi everyone,

I was hoping you could help with a problem - I am positioning a
Microsoft Office Drawing Object in a document along with some
paragraphs of text with headings. I want to position the object at the
top of page 2, with the text continuing below the object, on page 2. I
have set up the object with the 'top and bottom' layout, positioned it
centrally and at the start of the top of the page margin. I was
expecting that the text on page 1 will continue to the last line of the
page and then begin again at the bottom of object, about two-thirds of
the way down page 2.

Does that make sense? Hope so!

The problem is that the text does not continue to the last line of page
1, instead I have a large gap at the bottom of page 1. This doesn't
seem to change whether I switch the widow/orphan control of the
paragraph text on or off, it doesn't matter how long the paragraph is
before/after the object. It just seems to be an unnecessary big space
that I can't get rid of!

I thought I had quite a bit of experience with Word and knew the logic
of it's formatting, but this one has me completely stumped. Has anyone
had a similar problem? Any solutions or thoughts?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.

Best wishes.


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eddie2am

Hi eddie,

Word does not have, and has never had, the ability to flow text past a
graphic object. You'll have to move the text manually by cut-and-paste
to fill the gap, or export the text to Publisher to do your page
layout.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:40:14 +0000, eddie2am
wrote:


Hi everyone,

I was hoping you could help with a problem - I am positioning a
Microsoft Office Drawing Object in a document along with some
paragraphs of text with headings. I want to position the object at the
top of page 2, with the text continuing below the object, on page 2. I
have set up the object with the 'top and bottom' layout, positioned it
centrally and at the start of the top of the page margin. I was
expecting that the text on page 1 will continue to the last line of the
page and then begin again at the bottom of object, about two-thirds of
the way down page 2.

Does that make sense? Hope so!

The problem is that the text does not continue to the last line of page
1, instead I have a large gap at the bottom of page 1. This doesn't
seem to change whether I switch the widow/orphan control of the
paragraph text on or off, it doesn't matter how long the paragraph is
before/after the object. It just seems to be an unnecessary big space
that I can't get rid of!

I thought I had quite a bit of experience with Word and knew the logic
of it's formatting, but this one has me completely stumped. Has anyone
had a similar problem? Any solutions or thoughts?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.

Best wishes.