Pinning images within Text flow in Publisher

[spyderbryin]

Hi 

I am trying to write a history book about my local football team and am struggling to get to grips with Pinning.

My objective is to have a two page spread of statistical tables at the end of each season (chapter) but I need to pin the tables (or images) to the final piece of text, but still force the tables/images onto the next two page spread. The text will be added to as I go along, which probably makes it a back to front way of doing it.

Could the text be pinned to an anchor placed on the relevant 2-page spread?

Is anyone aware of how I might achieve this please?

TIA

Spyderbryin 

[Old Bruce]

Pinning doesn't work well with full page or even 1/4 page images/tables. Too much jumping about of text and pictures.

Your best bet is to just leave the tables until you have all the text in place. Just keep adding two blank pages, if necessary, to the end of each chapter as you add more text. 

Myself, I would do all the writing first. Then do the layout. Tiny text edits are no problem.

[spyderbryin]

Much appreciated advice Old Bruce. 

I'll try to re-plan my approach based on your comments. 

Thankfully I've not put hardly any pics in yet either

Thank you

[MikeTO]

Although there is a lot to be said for doing it manually, Publisher can handle full page inline objects. I agree with Bruce that large inline objects can cause text flow issues if you're not using page breaks but full-page objects aren't an issue.

1. Create chapter 1 with a series of linked text frames and your copy
2. At the end of chapter 1, insert a page break (use an odd or even break if that's important to you)
   1. Tip: If there wasn't a blank page for the page break to move the cursor into, Publisher will not show the last frame in the story as overset so you can't Shift+click the overset icon to create a new spread and link the pages. So just type a single character and the frame will be overset and now you can Shift+click. Then delete that character.
3. Since you said you'll have two pages of tables, insert another page break, too. When you're done with the page breaks (and shift+clicking the overset icon to generate linked frames) you will have two blank pages at the end of the chapter.
4. Draw a table on each page with the columns and rows you want. Or paste in an image of the table. Whatever you want.
5. Select the first of those tables and pin it inline, immediately following the page break. Select the second table on the second page and pin it inline, following the second page break.
6. Repeat for other chapters and now the two tables will stay with your chapter text as you edit it. I built a dummy document with a couple of chapters to test this out and it worked quite well so I don't foresee any real issues.

Cheers