Hello everyone!



I am actually using Word 2013 for school purposes. I'm having issues managing images in my document and I tought maybe some of you guys could help me. So I have this document made with both text and figures. Now what I want to do is be able to stick a page size figure to one page so the text transit from the previous page to the next one without moving the figure automatically.

See the example I made bellow. Let’s say the last word in page 41 don’t have enough room. It will unfortunately for me go to the next page and ruin all my layout. The behavior I wish to accomplish ultimately is that this last word at the end of page 41 goes all the way up to page 43 without modifying page 42. It would break the current paragraph at the end of page 41 and start it again at the beginning of page 43 so the last sentence at the previous page stay justified. I need a function that prevents Word from considering page 42 for text and skip to page 43 instead.

I’m aware there is some tricky way of doing this… Like if I select the figure, than use the "Wrap text/Top and bottom" from the picture tools, it kind of does it, but not really… Most of the time, there is still some words that sticks next to the image in a buggy way although it is not supposed to. Plus this option makes the image shift forward when stuff are added in pages before. I really want this figure to stay on page 42!

Can you guys be of any help? That would be awesome!

Sorry, Word doesn't let you flow text in such a way that it skips a page. You will have to fake it by manually moving text to the following page.

At the bottom of page 42 in your example, first add a line break (Shift+Enter) to ensure that the text justifies, and then break the paragraph.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

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Thanks for your reply! Yes I am aware of that workaround, but I just thought there was a more clean and convenient way. I know a lot of colleagues here at the University would be really really grateful if such a feature was implemented. I hope developers from Microsoft will someday feel our pain and hear our plea! But thanks again.

Best regards,
Marc-Andre

You never know, but right now I doubt that this will be a new feature in Word (because Word isn't a page layout program).

Publisher, or any layout program for that matter, will let you do this. Of course, Publisher doesn't offer a way to create a TOC or index, so it isn't really an option for most people.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional