I just sent the following to the MS wish list about a pet peeve of mine.
What do you all think about this flaw?

Over 15 years ago WordPerfect was smart enough to move an image or other
object to the top of the next page if the remainder of the current page
wasn't big enough to hold it--and to fill the remainder of the current page
with the text that had been typed in after the image. It was smart enough to
adjust references to these objects automatically: If the paragraph before
the image said "See the picture {below}", where {below} indicates a
reference code, then when the image moved to the next page, {below} would be
changed automatically to {on page X}. As text was added or deleted, the
reflowing occurred automatically, so that if the image once again could fit
directly where it had been inserted by the user, it would.

Why in the world, in all this time, has Microsoft not seen fit to do this
with Word? Does Microsoft really think it's attractive that when an image
two-thirds of a page high flows to the next page, it should leave a
quarter-page or half-page empty gap on the page before it? Or does Microsoft
think its users don't like word processing to be *too* automatic, that we
like manually moving our images around every time we revise our documents?

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Harlan Messinger
Remove the first dot from my e-mail address.
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