MSWord - Table positioning and anchoring.

[goodTweetieBird]

I am having trouble placing tables. I started out with I call hanging
indents and autonumbering. That is, the first line is further left
than the rest of the paragraph: it has a number such as 3.2 or 3.4 and
then a line of text. As long as I use shift-Enter the remainder of the
paragraph stays tabbed in one tab. I ran into trouble cutting and
pasting text and tables into this area as I kept losing my hanging
indent with autonumbering.

I thought it might be easier to create a series of empty paragraphs
that would be properly numbered and then paste text and tables into
these paragraphs. I created the empty paragraphs with about 10 empty
lines (much longer than the length of the tables) and then tried to
paste the tables into the blank areas. When I try to paste into
paragraph 3.4 it lands in 3.3 or 3.5. I have tried cut and paste and
dragging but I am having little success.

My goal is to have a numbered, hanging indent title line. A paragraph
of text and then a table followed by 2 more blank lines. Sometimes I
do manage to get the table in approximately the right place but then
when I remove some blank lines the table will not move up. It seems to
be anchored to a fixed location.

Obviously I have much to learn about MSWord tables, etc.


Thanks,

gtb

 

[goodTweetieBird]

I am having trouble placing tables. I started out with I call hanging
indents and autonumbering. That is, the first line is further left
than the rest of the paragraph: it has a number such as 3.2 or 3.4 and
then a line of text. As long as I use shift-Enter the remainder of the
paragraph stays tabbed in one tab. I ran into trouble cutting and
pasting text and tables into this area as I kept losing my hanging
indent with autonumbering.

I thought it might be easier to create a series of empty paragraphs
that would be properly numbered and then paste text and tables into
these paragraphs. I created the empty paragraphs with about 10 empty
lines (much longer than the length of the tables) and then tried to
paste the tables into the blank areas. When I try to paste into
paragraph 3.4 it lands in 3.3 or 3.5. I have tried cut and paste and
dragging but I am having little success.

My goal is to have a numbered, hanging indent title line. A paragraph
of text and then a table followed by 2 more blank lines. Sometimes I
do manage to get the table in approximately the right place but then
when I remove some blank lines the table will not move up. It seems to
be anchored to a fixed location.

Obviously I have much to learn about MSWord tables, etc.

Thanks,

gtb

I should have stated that text wrapping is set to none.