Is it just me? Tables with pictures often jump from current page to next page, stay for a while, then jump back. It can happen ten times in ten minutes while I'm editing later in the table or editing text before the paragraph that introduced the table.
I've even had occasions (many) where a generated PDF had the intro paragraph (a heading and two lines) lonely at the top of a page, and the table starting at the top of the next page... so a big, ugly white space and the document extended to an additional page in length. Then in the .odt (using OOo 3.3 on Win XP Pro) I erase and replace a character or paragraph marker and the table jumps back to its proper place under the introductory paragraph. I can see where Writer would move a lengthy table around when parts of it (or parts of the preceding text) are being edited, and Writer needs to recalculate positioning. But what I just DON'T get is why Writer then leaves the table in the wrong place until I "jiggle" it. Sometimes "jiggling" means just erasing a character and immediately putting it back. Other times, "jiggling" means just rapidly scrolling the document up-and-down a couple of times. Still other times, "jiggling" means closing the document and reopening. I've generated PDFs from "wrong" placement and the big empty space propagates to the PDF, just as the proper placement propagates to a PDF if I trick the table into jumping back where it belongs before "Export as PDF". So, it isn't just temporary rendering. Writer is taking the current position very seriously, no matter how tentative that position might be. It just seems arbitrary. Are the rules of table positioning and re-positioning published somewhere? Would I profit from drawing a pentagram around my desk, lighting candles and sacrificing an animal or two? Or a co-worker? If it makes a difference, all pictures or drawings in such tables are anchored "As character", since that is the only way I've found to get the pics to stay where I put them in a table. All table properties and content styles have Widow/orphan settings and "Keep with next" switched OFF, and the tables and rows and columns are all allowed to break across pages. This is not a HUGE time waster, but when one is working toward deadlines, any timewaster is a problem. If I knew the arcane rules, it might help, but the Help isn't helpful on this. - kevin <bumph-start> The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
