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Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.

In that case you could check your page breaks and try to optimize. Yes, big figures or tables can make page breaking harder. You could try to give more placement options, such as [!htbp] in the maximum, or the LyX equivalent.

So far I have pretty ...

I read that some one solved a problem with paragraph spacing by downloading the latest IEEEtran.zip. I have done this and unzipped it and it contains a .cls file which is presumably a document class file.

However in Lyx I can find no way to load this file or change the document class to reflect the ...

I am using a journal paper template ieeetran5.

I see that most paragraphs have the same vertical spacing but a few larger spacing and this has come up in a review.

The review is slightly ambiguous, but I think some of the paragraphs may be those that follow a section or subsection title. I suspect ...

Attached is a minimal working example

As far as I can see there are among others "floats for figures" and "floats for tables", but they are both floats then you add something into the float, eg an actual table.

So the table in the figure float is an exact paste of the one in the table float but it ...

OK.

I was surprised it was as much as 50% though

7 columns 7% each 49% of the length

I need to put a table in a figure float but although the figure float seems to acept the table perfectly well its font size is different to when the identically copied table is placed inside a table float.

Thing is what I am presenting 'looks' exactly like a table so using table would get me better ...

I am sure this is just my stupidity or failure to read instructions right, but I would be very grateful of some advice regarding keeping my table on the page.

I have a 2 column paper.

If I set columns to %column width I cannot seem to keep the table on the page pretty much what ever I do.

So I am ...

Thank you, I appreciate it.

My version is old. However, as a rule I like to control all the parameters so not keen to change version find an unexpected impact and find no backwards path.

Do you know if there is a way to install a later version in parallel? And be certain of achieving this?

does it work to open the ODT document in OpenOffice/LibreOffice and then save as a DOC or DOCX from there?

That sounds like a good thing to try. Apologies I didn't think of that. I shall try that soon.

Regarding your list of 'tells'. I think it very much depends on who you are, who your ...

Thank you for your pointer to the Modify button. Some reason I didn't spot that. Does seem a little against the usual idiom/pattern though.

Regarding pandoc. I tried the two stage conversion using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Prof. It was roughly like the PDF but there were still quite a few errors and I ...