Hi everyone,

I was hoping you could help with a problem - I am positioning a
Microsoft Office Drawing Object in a document along with some
paragraphs of text with headings.  I want to position the object at the
top of page 2, with the text continuing below the object, on page 2.  I
have set up the object with the 'top and bottom' layout, positioned it
centrally and at the start of the top of the page margin.  I was
expecting that the text on page 1 will continue to the last line of the
page and then begin again at the bottom of object, about two-thirds of
the way down page 2.

Does that make sense?  Hope so!

The problem is that the text does not continue to the last line of page
1, instead I have a large gap at the bottom of page 1.  This doesn't
seem to change whether I switch the widow/orphan control of the
paragraph text on or off, it doesn't matter how long the paragraph is
before/after the object.  It just seems to be an unnecessary big space
that I can't get rid of!

I thought I had quite a bit of experience with Word and knew the logic
of it's formatting, but this one has me completely stumped.  Has anyone
had a similar problem?  Any solutions or thoughts?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.

Best wishes.