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So I have quite a few tables in my large document. Some tables contain multiple columns and rows (spanning from half page to full page tables), and in some there are only two rows, one containing a figure inside a table and in the lower, the legends.

Problem is, many time I put the table on top of a page. On the preceding page, most often is a paragraph still continuing and that should end somewhere below the table on the next page. Almost always, when I put the table on top of page, it breaks the paragraph into two paragraphs which the new paragraph starting below the table (or on next page, when it is a full page table). But I have seen with some tables, it is not the case. Those few flow continuously with the text.



When the table breaks the paragraph, I have to manually remove the indent on the next paragraph so it looks ok when printed. Or I have to leave lot of space on the previous page which makes it ugly.

All the tables have Left align, Around, set to top of margin.
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Old 05-06-2018, 03:57 PM
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Your description suggests the problem is due to your use of tables without the 'around' text-wrapping attribute. If you apply that, then position the table at the top of the page, the text should flow as you desire.
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I changed the table settings from Around to None. Still can't do it. Changing with 'None' does one extra problem. The positioning option goes away with which I can say that the table stays on top of the page / margin.
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If you want to force an in-line table to start at the top of a page, format it's first paragraph with the 'page break before' attribute.
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OKay, I dont know what 'page break before' actually does, but when I selected my table and used this setting, it made every single row of the table on a single page, so in my case, after making 'page break before' this table spanned on 15 pages, with only one row on each page and rest of page empty.
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I dont know what 'page break before' actually does, but when I selected my table and used this setting, it made every single row of the table on a single page
Well, I did only say to apply it to the first paragraph in your table...
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Ok, I tried that. I saw no difference. It still breaks the preceding paragraph.
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A preceding paragraph spanning a page break has nothing to do with the paragraph formatting I suggested in the first paragraph of the table. If you don't want a particular paragraph to span a page break, set its 'keep lines together' attribute.
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When I set the paragraph to keep the lines together, the whole paragraph moves on to the next page, leaving a lot of empty space on the page.
This paragraph starts on the bottom of a page, such that half is on first page and ends before the upper half of the next page. When I put the table on the second page, and use the setting to keep it on top of margin, so it looks nice over there, this paragraph is broken into two paragraph, the half is on the previous page (broken at the last line) and the new paragraph is under the table on second page, which I have to manually remove the indent. So when printed no one will notice it, but if I edit the text and insert some new sections here and there, then I have to join these paragraphs again.
I guess no none understands the problem so no one knows whats the solution. I am not being rude but frustrated at it.
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If you need to have text wrap around a table, you'll need to use the 'around' table layout. If you need that same table to also stay in a fixed position on the page, use the 'around' options to set its vertical position relative to the top margin.
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Thats what I usually do, I use the 'around' setting to keep it on top of page. But by doing so, it breaks the paragraph before the table into two , with the new paragraph coming after the table.
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The only way I can do it for now, is make a text box and put the table inside the text box. Then it stays nicely at the top. But I believe, that is a bad way to it.

P.S. I have also posted on microsof forums.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...=1525853595713
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That technique I described in posts #2 & #10 doesn't break the paragraph - it causes it to wrap 'around' the table.
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This is the condition...

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I just found out that if the table is a small one and is at the bottom of the page and I set it to be at the top of margin, then it goes at the top nicely. But b/c it is a large table I have to pick it up from the next page and put it here on this page, it always breaks the paragraph.
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It is not the table that is breaking the paragraph in your picture - you've done it yourself, via a paragraph break.
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