Unless this is a bizarre font (always a possibility, since the character
seems to represent end-of-cell markers as well), that is a line break, not a
paragraph break, and I'm amazed you could get by with that between a page
break and a table. But if you want a page break before a table without a
paragraph above the table on the page, don't use Ctrl+Enter to insert a
manual page break; instead, select the first row of the table and format it
as "Page break before" (Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks). This has
the added advantage that it doesn't split the table, so any repeated heading
row(s) will continue on the new page.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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