But the text will never flow around a picture that takes up the full page. If the anchor is pushed onto a new page, so is the picture. The graphic is never 'anchored' permanently to a particular page number because the page contents are determined on the fly depending on the content and the attributes applied to that content.

If you want to see behaviour like a page layout program, you should use a page layout program. Adobe Indesign allows you to put the graphics on whichever page you want them and then the text can flow independently around the graphics. Indesign allows you to specify the exact page count and where every graphic sits on the page. If you set up the text to flow independently of the graphics you can overpopulate or underpopulate the text frame to your hearts content without changing the page count or which page the graphics sit on.

Word simply doesn't work that way and doesn't have the flexibility of a page layout program. It does have plenty of other features that are better than Indesign but fixed page locations for graphics is not one of them.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia