Hi Brad,

What you should have noticed is that for the tables that don't flow,
the text wrapping (the two big buttons to the left of the Positioning
button) is set to Around. The ones that do flow are set to None, which
is what all of your tables should be set to for the effect you want.

It's easy to give a table Around wrapping inadvertently by dragging
the table handle (the little box off the northwest corner of the
table). It then behaves the same way as a floating picture. The way to
turn that off is to click the None button in the Table Properties
dialog.

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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:42:24 -0500, "Brad"
wrote:

I have a document with many tables. Some of them want to lock into a
position on the page and won't flow with the text, while others will. In
those that will flow, the position button is grayed out in the table
properties, but it is active in those that won't flow with the text. I have
the vertical position set to 0" relative to the paragraph and the option to
move with text, but it still wants to be on the next page from where I want
it. See attached image.

In the paragraph settings for the text, the line and page breaks are
unchecked.

How do I get the table to flow once it has been set to position? Do I need
to redo my table and delete the original?

Brad

Word 2002 on XP Pro SP 3