"keep with next" doesn't work with graphics?

[jkatj]

Whenever I place a picture or graphic in a Word file so that the text wraps
around it, the text loses its ability to obey the paragraph options of "keep
lines together" and "keep with next." If I place a graphic "in line with
text," this doesn't happen, but any graphic floating so text can wrap around
it throws these settings off. Then I end up with things happening like a
heading is on one page and its appropriate text on the next even though the
heading is set as "keep with next."

Anybody know how to fix this? Or if it can even BE fixed?

Many thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This probably relates to the size of the graphic and which paragraph it is
anchored to. If it is anchored to the text paragraph that follows the
heading, but there is not room for the graphic on the page below the
heading, then you would expect heading and all to move to the next page, but
that might not happen. Moreover, Word notoriously has problems calculating
page breaks in text wrapped next to a text box, frame, or other floating
object.

 

[jkatj]

Thanks, Suzanne.

While I still don't have a solution (since it sounds like there isn't one
except never using objects of any sort), at least I know I'm not alone with
the problem and that there's not much point in continuing to search for
answers on this. I've spent quite a bit of time looking for ways to stop
graphics/text boxes/etc. from causing widows and orphans and lonely headers
since I started at my current job a few years ago.

Oh, how I miss my days of working in Quark where complicated layouts didn't
go berserk.