If you right-click in the Table and select Table Properties, you will see
that the table Text Wrapping is set to AROUND. If you clear that by checking
the NONE option and the table will also start behaving correctly again.

Terry

"JethroUK" wrote in message
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Thanks that works fine too

It's like BoniM mentioned - the slightest nudge on the table anchor point
and it makes the position fixed - this has happened to me dozens of times
and not knowing that tables can be 'positioned', i've ended up creating a
brand new document and pain-stakingly copy/pasting everything into it -
maybe there should be a pop-up to tell you when this happens

I'm not sure what you mean by why the table is set to wrap - can you
explain? - i use tables all the time & it might be something else that's
been tormenting me



"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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If you right-click on the Table and select Properties, click on the
Positioning Button and you will see that the Vertical Position is set to
28.12cm from the margin. Change it to TOP. Then remove the superfluous
paragraph break in the middle that is splitting the table.

But why is the table set to Wrap anyway?

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"JethroUK" wrote in message
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Anyone explain why this table is starting halfway down the page when it
used to start at the top?


http://jethrouk.members.beeb.net/broken.doc

This is constantly happening with my tables and it drives me insane and
the only solution seems to be to re-write the whole 100 page document