@dkf At least in the version of Word I had at the time — that was over 10 years ago — as best I can recall, that wasn't really possible. The picture could be positioned relative to the page — that's the way to get it to mostly work that I mentioned — but it was still anchored to the text — specifically, to the first paragraph on the page — and if an edit caused the text to move to the previous page, so did the picture. I could be misremembering — it has been more than 10 years — but I spent something like 14 months fighting this, so if there were any easy fix, I think I would have found it.