Moving a table on Word

Hi,

I want to drag move a table on Word but the table keeps going away to places that I do not intend to send it. So far, I have read answers like changing the text wrap to none but this reverts back to around when I move a table by dragging it. So, is there a way to drag move a table in Word and make sure that it stays at exactly the same location that I dropped the table?

Thanks in advance

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I see but now the problem is how can I move the cursor to the place that I want. For example I want to horizontally place three tables but the cursor will not move to the place to do that. Best I can get is it will move to the end of the first row and just outside of the border of the table but in this case, when I paste it, the two tables merge.

If you do not want two contiguous tables to merge, you need to put something, a space or a paragraph, between them. If both are floating (text wraps around them) this is not necessary; they will not merge.

If you are trying to horizontally place two different tables, both must be set to wrap text around them and there must be room on the page for both to fit. If you have both set for text to wrap, you can place the insertion point to the right of one. Put a space or a tab there. (The cursor is the mouse pointer; the insertion point is where the next text you type will be found.

Floating Tables

The screenshot below, with non-printing formatting characters displayed shows a paragraph mark to the right of a table.

This is with wrapping turned on.

At this point, the table acts like a floating graphic. You can select and move it if you want.

If you hover the mouse pointer over the top left of the table a selection tool will appear and the mouse-pointer itself will change and let you drag the table. See below for the same table after it has been dragged into some random added text.

Here is with a second table added and dragged to the right of the first one.

Note that the tables are right next to one another yet they do not merge. You can, of course, drag one into the other so that you have nested tables. (I seldom would recommend doing so.)

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Charles Kenyon
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
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