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<blockquote data-quote="hammerlily" data-source="post: 3047212" data-attributes="member: 41927">&gt;&gt;or why it randomnly decides to adjust my page margins and borders; Generally, if you adjust page margins &amp; borders from page to page, or have different headers/footers on pages you (or Word automatically on your behalf) have put section breaks into your document. If you delete text that includes that section break, Word will default to the page margin &amp; border setting of the prior section. You can avoid this by having the paragraph markings turned on so you can see where the section breaks are placed.&gt;&gt;or why sometimes, if I insert a table on one page, it will not let me use the last half of the previous page; Word generally keeps tables together as a paragraph style and will not flow a table over a page unless the table itself is more than a page long. The way to get around this is to split the table (once you know how much of your table you will need). &gt;&gt;or why when I move a table an inch to the left it magically leaps a page backwards and lands on top of another table somewhere else.Word enters an invisible anchor for each table or graphic placed in Word. Generally this is placed at the beginning of a paragraph &amp; then Word tracks the horizontal and vertical offset from the anchor point as a &quot;helpful way&quot; to ensure that the table stays with the text that it is dropped into. This becomes particularly annoying when you are placing something into the first paragraph on the page or into a paragraph on the top of a two or three column page.&nbsp; On a multi-column page Word defaults to dropping this anchor into the paragraph on the leftmost column even if you are actually placing the graphic into one of the other columns.&nbsp; Again, if you turn on the paragraph markings, you can see the location of the anchor related to the table or graphic and minimize the problem.&nbsp; Or, you can use the advanced settings of the &quot;format graphic&quot; or &quot;format table&quot; option to set the anchor to a location on the page rather than a location in the paragraph - a tedious process, but will provide a more stable graphics placement.Word... its like the government... its here to help!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; Ha!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hammerlily, post: 3047212, member: 41927"] [B]>>or why it randomnly decides to adjust my page margins and borders; [/B] Generally, if you adjust page margins & borders from page to page, or have different headers/footers on pages you (or Word automatically on your behalf) have put section breaks into your document. If you delete text that includes that section break, Word will default to the page margin & border setting of the prior section. You can avoid this by having the paragraph markings turned on so you can see where the section breaks are placed. [B]>>or why sometimes, if I insert a table on one page, it will not let me use the last half of the previous page; [/B] Word generally keeps tables together as a paragraph style and will not flow a table over a page unless the table itself is more than a page long. The way to get around this is to split the table (once you know how much of your table you will need). [B]>>or why when I move a table an inch to the left it magically leaps a page backwards and lands on top of another table somewhere else.[/B] Word enters an invisible anchor for each table or graphic placed in Word. Generally this is placed at the beginning of a paragraph & then Word tracks the horizontal and vertical offset from the anchor point as a "helpful way" to ensure that the table stays with the text that it is dropped into. This becomes particularly annoying when you are placing something into the first paragraph on the page or into a paragraph on the top of a two or three column page. On a multi-column page Word defaults to dropping this anchor into the paragraph on the leftmost column even if you are actually placing the graphic into one of the other columns. Again, if you turn on the paragraph markings, you can see the location of the anchor related to the table or graphic and minimize the problem. Or, you can use the advanced settings of the "format graphic" or "format table" option to set the anchor to a location on the page rather than a location in the paragraph - a tedious process, but will provide a more stable graphics placement. Word... its like the government... its here to help! ;) Ha! [/QUOTE]

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