Locking a figure to its own page; allowing type to move between surrounding pages

[Courtney Burge]

Hello!

I am using Microsoft Word 2000 on Windows NT.

For my dissertation, I need the figure to be on its own page. Let's
say I have three pages: page 1 is text, page 2 has a figure, and page
3 is text. I would like the text to be able to flow around the figure
page, so that if I delete one paragraph on page 1, the text from the
top of page 3 will move to the bottom of page 1 to fill the space.
The figure will always stay on page 2, alone.

I am having real issues trying to format the figure so that this will
happen. And, if I use a section or page break, the text from page 3
won't move up to fill deleted space in page 1.

Thank you in advance for any help, suggestions, etc.

C.

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Courtney

Courtney Burge wrote:
[..]

For my dissertation, I need the figure to be on its own page. Let's
say I have three pages: page 1 is text, page 2 has a figure, and page
3 is text. I would like the text to be able to flow around the figure
page, so that if I delete one paragraph on page 1, the text from the
top of page 3 will move to the bottom of page 1 to fill the space.
The figure will always stay on page 2, alone.

Sorry, you cannot do this with Word!

To allow any bodytext to flow "around" a picture, that picture needs to
be floating above the text area (anything besides "inline with text").
Now, such a picture cannot be all alone on a page, it needs to be
anchored to a paragraph and that paragraph must reside on the very same
page. But, if there's a paragraph on this page, you can't reflow your
text from the preceding page to the following, since you have a
paragraph in between(*).

Greetinx
..bob
(*) Technically, it would be possible with text from linked text boxes,
but you don't want to do that with your dissertation, beleive me! )

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day (e-mail address removed) (Courtney Burge),

Word 2003 allows for some stuff like this. Word 2000 doesn't. You will
have to manually move the lines above it.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Courtney Burge reckoned:

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Steve

Word 2003 allows for some stuff like this. Word 2000 doesn't. You will
have to manually move the lines above it. [..]
Courtney Burge reckoned: [..]

For my dissertation, I need the figure to be on its own page. Let's
say I have three pages: page 1 is text, page 2 has a figure, and page
3 is text. I would like the text to be able to flow around the figure
page, so that if I delete one paragraph on page 1, the text from the
top of page 3 will move to the bottom of page 1 to fill the space.
The figure will always stay on page 2, alone.

[..]

Could you specify this a bit? I tested for a minute in Word 2003 and
found nothing helping the situation, but I might just not have digged
down enough ...

Greetinx from good old Europe
..bob