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RAFDO - 20 May 2006 00:46 GMT

How do I get text or table to stay on a specific page in a document?

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Jay Freedman - 20 May 2006 01:28 GMT

>How do I get text or table to stay on a specific page in a document?

The short answer is, you can't.

Everything in Word is part of a text flow. Even text boxes and
floating tables and graphics are always "anchored" to a particular
paragraph of regular text, and if that paragraph moves to another
page, the floating object will go with it.

I think for this kind of job you'd be much happier with a real page
layout program such as Publisher.

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RAFDO - 20 May 2006 17:56 GMT

Thanks, I am not familiar with Publisher & belong to the BC generation
(before computers). Is Publisher similar to Word or is it a entirely new
program?

I only use 3 programs & Word is the only word processing one. I write
articles and create daily calendar dairies in Word format. Sometimes I need
to paste a whole page and need to keep the content and format intact such as
an email or letter from another source.

I have read about textbook format? Is the a Word function & would it allow
me to work around pages I want to leave intact that are in the middle of a
document.

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Jay Freedman - 20 May 2006 18:40 GMT

I think you might achieve the effect you want by inserting a text box
(from the Insert menu, select Text Box; then click in the upper left
corner of the page and drag toward the lower right corner). Then paste
the information from the other source inside the text box.

If it fits on one page, that should keep it together -- but I'm not
making any promises about formatting (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html for
some of the things that can go wrong).

As I mentioned before, a text box is anchored to a regular text
paragraph -- wherever the cursor is at the time you use the Insert >
Text Box command -- and if that paragraph moves to a different page,
the text box will also move.

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Jay Freedman
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>(before computers). Is Publisher similar to Word or is it a entirely new
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