Re: [vox-tech] OpenOffice - moving a table

["Donald G. McGahan" <dgmcMAPSgahan@sbcglobal.net>]

Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> wrote:
>  A macro has placed a table at the top of the page.  There appears to be
> space below the table.  Here's what the page looks like:
>
>
> +------------+
> | +--------+ |
> | |        | |
> | |        | |
> | |        | |
> | +--------+ |
> |            |
> |            |
> +------------+
>
> I want to stick text above the table.  However, I can't seem to position the
> cursor "above" the table to insert text.  The table doesn't want to seem to
> move, like it's anchored at the very top of the page (modulo the margin
> which you can't use anyhow).
>
> How do I move this table to make room for text above it?
>
> Also, there appears to be a blank second page.  Nothing actually appears to
> be on the page, so there's nothing for me to delete in order to remove the
> page.  Any ideas
>  on how to remove the second page?
>
> Even though the table doesn't extend to the bottom of page 1, I'm wondering
> if these two problems are related?
>
> It's so odd that I feel more proficient at LaTeX than I do a simple word
> processor...  :-(
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
> -- 
> How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation.
> You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5.
> If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules,
> you should write your own.
>               -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function
>
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Peter,
 place cursor in top left
 cell at begenning of anyting in cell and left arrow.
 

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