I didn't notice that the heading had moved! As a workaround, you could put the table into a textbox - that doesn't affect the spacing. However, you'll then have the replace the orange rectangle with something else (e.g. an orange cell), because you can't put a shape inside a textbox - or you could overlay the textbox with the orange shape. All of which gets messy.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]