In line picture at top of page gets clipped

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Open a Word 2007 document (docx). Insert a picture as "in line with text".
Insert enough material ahead of the paragraph containing the picture so that
it naturally falls at the top of a page--don't use a hard page break, etc.

Now select the paragraph containing the picture and increase its "space
before" setting. The paragraph marker does not move, but the picture moves
down, so that the bottom of the picture is below the bottom of the paragraph.
If you increase the "space before" to larger than the "space after" value,
the bottom of the picture gets cut off.

If you repeat the above with a few characters in the paragraph along with
the picture, you'll see that the text stays with the paragraph marker; only
the picture slides below the paragraph baseline. Changing the setting for
suppressing extra space at the top of the page has no effect.

Save the document in Word 2003 format, and the problem vanishes. That's not
too bad of a workaround, but is there anything else I can do?
 
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Then I guess I'll be sticking with 2003 format for now.

Thanks for the quick reply, Suzanne!
 

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