Word – How to add a paragraph directly after Word table

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If I have a document with a table in it, how do I add a new paragraph directly after the table?
For example:

Example document

Note the cross reference (which is a hyperlink) back to Heading 1b.

The only way I've found to add a new paragraph after the table (but before Heading 1b) is to put the cursor at the start of Heading 1b, and press Enter. This adds a new paragraph with style Heading 1, which I can fix by changing it to Normal – but this messes up the hyperlinks later in the document.

For my above example, doing this results in:

Document after adding paragraph after table

Clicking on the bottom hyperlink puts the cursor here:

Cursor position after clicking on the hyperlink

… and updating the cross-reference (with F9) results in:

Document after updating cross-reference

Best Answer

One solution would be to select the table, Cut it, insert all or some of "New text line 1" (or a single Enter), then Paste it back in after "Text".

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