"Keep with next" not working, footnote gets in the way

[vpprof]

Hi there!



I've noticed that the option "Keep with next" paragraph does not work as I'd expect it to work when the paragraph that has this option checked encounters a footnote. Then it thinks, 'well I'm not the last guy on the page, there's a footnote below me so I'll sit here.' And so the heading gets separated from the normal text, which starts on the next page.

It looks like that:




• HEADING (keep with next)
--------
¹ Footnote.

Page number

and next page starts here:

Text text text text.

Now I'm not a newbie to Word, I've been using it for years, I know better than to insert two ^p one after another etc. Also, my Normal text style doesn't have "Keep lines together" or "Keep with next" checked, as I know this would make it impossible for Word to keep everything together.

So do you have any idea of what I might be doing wrong or is it just how it's supposed to be? But gosh, it looks awful

Thanks in advance,
vpprof

[vpprof]

OK, I'm sorry, it turns out the real problem was, there was a picture anchored to the paragraph of normal text below the heading. Even though I still don't see why it should make Word act like that, I anchored the picture to the next paragraph (without changing its position on the page) and now everything works fine.

Gosh, I love Word, there's so much to discover about this software…