Grouping a text box and table in Word

[Cave Man]

I rarely use MS Word (prefer Pages), but because I'm collaborating on a document with a few Windows users I have to suffer through it. My problem is, I have a text box with a table legend, and the table itself (pasted Numbers spreadsheet). In Pages, I just click on both and Group. But I cannot seem to do this in Word. There is nothing that is intuitive about it. I found info on the MS page and a few other web pages, but they don't seem to apply to the version of Word that I have (most recent 16.44). What is the solution to grouping this as a single object?

 

[jamietshaw]

Ah yes, Word is always annoying! If you just pasted the Numbers spreadsheet in, Word will have represented it as a table in the general text flow of the document. Your text box is sort of a floating box that may or may not move with the general text flow depending on your settings, but it seen as a separate thing. You cannot group a floating thing with items in the general text flow.

Can you paste the table into the text box along with your legend?

Or, create a second text box and paste the Numbers table in there. Then select both text boxes and group them together. Note that this only works if both text boxes are not set to be inline with text in Layout > Wrap Text.