After I deleted the caption and the text box, I added a row to the bottom of the table. That change inserted a new mostly blank page with a heading and the caption both printed on it. So the problems I've been describing in this thread tempt me to treat the table as a picture. But if I do that, I'll need to manually update the table of figures because with the captions built into a picture, the computer will omit them from that table. It won't know that they're captions.