Word – How to add a shape into a table so it retains the shape properties

The active cursor is even with the bottom left of the table normally. You can just hit Ctrl+Home to get to the very first character of the file, then Enter to move the table down.

If your table is positioned after the section break, or on top of any other page, or anywhere else for that matter, place the cursor in the top left cell of the table, and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter to insert a new line before the table.

You want to make sure to use a non breaking hyphen (Ctrl+Shift+_) between the 123-456. Then when you copy paste, it will do what you would like.

You can find this in the special character section under the "Insert" tab, under Symbols and click "More Symbols". Then go to the the "Special Characters" tab and the 3rd option down will mention the non breaking hyphen. You can also setup auto-correction and symbols in here to change what actions you prefer.

Once I changed to non breaking hyphens, I was able to copy paste in the format you desired. I got a hint from this article.