Tables and paragraph breaks

[Blacktom]

I'm inserting a table into a single page word document. It sits at the bottom
of the page, under the text. There is enough room for it to fit, but I want
to maximise the size of the table using all the available space. However,
when I drag the bottom edge of the table to where the ruler shows the margin
to be, the table breaks and continues on a new page. Revealing non-printing
characters shows that there is a paragraph break below the table, so
presumably the reason the table breaks when it hasn't exceeded the page
margins is because room is needed for the paragraph break. This seems a bit
strange, because with text, the break comes at the end of a line, i.e. it
doesn' t need a line of its own. Is there a way round this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Stefan and "macropod" have pointed out, you can't avoid the paragraph
after the table, but the reason the table is breaking (as opposed to just
having a "blank" page for the empty paragraph) is likely that the last row
of the table is formatted as "Keep with next."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org