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"Heather Thompson" <heatherhmt@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ef9f4cb.-1@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4>...
> I have a two column layout and needed to create some paragraph tags for graphics to straddle both columns.  When I did this, I found that text above the graphic wraps from the left column into the right column before it begins again below the graphic in the left column.  I think this will confuse readers, so I want to keep the graphic at the top of the page.  This is where I?ve had problems.   
> 
> I need a table caption before the anchored frames for my imported
tables, and a figure caption after the  anchored frames for my
imported figures.  I have separate paragraph tags for each type (ie a
Table Anchored tag, a Table Caption tag, a Figure Anchored tag, and a
Figure Caption ? all of which span both columns). Requiring the
caption to stay with the anchored frame tag is making it difficult to
control the position of the anchored frame and the text flow near it.

I use FrameMaker tables for both Tables and Figures. You cannot force
them to be at the top of a page, but if you anchor them near the
bottom of the page and set them to FLOAT, they will appear at the top
of the next page. Once you've defined the tables properly, inserting a
new table will even make it the appropriate width, and set the
paragraph tags appropriately.

Rodney Sauer
rodney@rddconsultants.com
RDD Consultants, Inc. 
Technical communications services,
consulting, and publishing.