Moving these two elements around ruins a perfectly formatted document.

In order to move either of these items around, you should always use the cut and paste functions, and use their own dedicated alignment tools to fix formatting problems that might arise after.

Heres how you can align tables and images in Microsoft Word.

The Table Properties window has several tabs that deal with the alignment and other aspects of a table.

Make sure youre on the Table tab and not any of the other tabs i.e., the row, column, or cell tabs.

If your table is small, and you want the text to take up the empty space around the table instead of appearing after it, go to the Text Wrapping section, and select Around.

You can also drag the table around and drop it where you want to position it but we all know that will turn into a disaster.

By default, all tables and images follow the same alignment as the text that preceded it.

Additionally, the text wrapping is always set to in-line which means no element will overlap the other one.

If you want the image to not align with the text, you must choose an option other than In line with text.

Dont use the Behind text option unless youre trying to insert a watermark, and dont use the in front of text option either or the text will be blocked.

The others allow you to freely move the image around wherever you want.

You have to go to the Position tab where you can set horizontal andor vertical alignment.

Select the alignment option and open the dropdown next to it.

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