The problem is that it's figures with lots of small bits and pieces (connection diagrams) with no fill in any of the shapes they're made of, and when they get smeared out over all the text, it's next to impossible to see what's what. I could of course use the bail-out option of having empty lines behind the figure, but somehow I stubbornly want Word to just do what I tell it, not what it thinks I should be doing...