Using "Pages.app": how to insert an image between two paragraphs

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I’d tried the steps that you described in a tiny document. But even in a smallish, but realistically sized, document, it’s like you said. The image ends up randomly located. And only then do you get the chance to select “Above and Below” and other properties—esp. “Move with Text”. And then, but only then, do you drag it into place. That’s back-to-front—and awful usability. But I s’pose that I can live with it if I must.

However, even in a tiny document with just two paragraphs and an image between them, it goes wrong when I insert more and more short phrases into the paragraph before the image until it gradually moves down to reach the bottom of the page. Just before the point when adding yet more text makes it jump to the next page. the image is right at the bottom of the page and it obscures the footer. But I definitely do want a footer.

Soon after, as yet more text is added before the image so that it jumps to the next page, its location between the two paragraphs is simply lost so that I have to reposition it manually.

This would be totally unworkable in a serious document preparation task when the doc has many pages and many images and the text is changed with subsequent revisions.

It seems that “Pages.app” simply lacks an explicit construct to *anchor* an image to a specific spot between (say) two paragraphs

Could you please try my test and tell me if you can make the image stay between the two paragraphs without obscuring the footer?

Thanks, again, for trying to help. But I don’t want to fix the image to a specific spot on a specific page. Rather, I want it always to lie between two designated paragraphs—even as I edit the text in any arbitrary fashion within these paragraphs—or, like I said, in paragraphs before the paragraph that immediately precedes the image or in paragraphs after the paragraph that immediately follows the image.

It seems clear now that “Pages.app” is just a toy—and not up to the task of serious document preparation. What a pity. I used to use Adobe’s FrameMaker. It has everything that I need for the task that I described. But I cannot now use this because: (1) Adobe never made a version for MacOS so that I had to use it in a Windows VM; (2), and separately, Adobe never made a version for Windows that runs on the modern chip that Apple calls “Silicon”.

Case closed—with a big sigh.