I have a full page table that I want to position at a particular place in my document, but this is the middle of a paragraph. I can't seem to make Word wrap my paragraph text before / after the table using page breaks, text-wrapping breaks or section breaks, and if I manually cut and paste enough of my text to make it appear on the page after my table then the text before the table isn't justified (the last line doesn't extend all the way to the right margin) – what am I missing to achieve this?!
Word – Wrapping text around full page tables
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Based on this guide from the MS Word MVP FAQ site. Quotes are from the article; screenshots were taken for this post.
In Word 2007, on the Home tab, locate the Paragraph group. Click the dialog launcher (small arrow) in the bottom right corner to open the Paragraph dialog. Select the Line and Page Breaks tab.
“Keep lines together,” as the name implies, keeps all the lines of a paragraph together. That is, it keeps a single paragraph from being split across two pages.
“Keep with next” keeps a given paragraph with the following one. That is, it prevents the two paragraphs from being separated across two pages (the individual paragraphs, however, can be split internally unless “Keep lines together” is also applied). This property is assigned by default to Word's built-in Heading 1–Heading 4 styles to ensure that headings stay with following text.
Select both of these properties to force the table to wrap columns or go to the next page if it exceeds the available space.
Now the table behaves as desired:
On pressing enter the spacing is added which I want, but the text is not justified anymore.
Use shift+enter instead of enter.
This will insert a line break instead of a carriage return and preserve the justified text of the previous paragraph.
Best Answer
If adding Shift+Enter at the end of
gets you
then try turning off “Widow/Orphan control” for that paragraph. If that doesn’t help, try applying the Shift+Enter one line up:
And then can you just move the “Welfare, and secure the” line to page 3?