Adding page in Word Doc mode without pushing text, objects into following sections

VikingOSX, I can't thank you enough for the reply! I guess maybe I misstated the problem somewhat.

I am using a combination of text and png files that sometimes take up a whole page, sometimes several pages:

So when I used your suggestion to "insert page break" instead of the "add page" at the bottom of the last page with text, it did indeed insert a page at the bottom of that section. It even skipped over the 3 pages with graphics on them, like I wanted. I wanted to do this so I could add more pages of graphics at the end of that section:

But if you'll notice the next section (grayed out) at the bottom of that last screen shot, you'll see that the "insert page break" operation caused an issue in that next section. Page 14, the first page of the new section, now has the png file that had been on page 15 on top of it. I moved the graphic a bit to the right so you could easily see the text behind it. It not only moved that graphic, but all the proceeding graphics for the next 60 pages or so!

So I guess the operation is not actually pushing content into the next section, but rather, causing already arranged content throughout the remainder of the book to move around.

I noticed another post on here where someone mentioned the "Locked" feature. I wasn't aware of the feature and so had not engaged it. I thought as long as I had the "Stay on Page" and "None" for text wrap selected, things would stay in place. Is that my problem? I just need to go back and "Lock" all of those objects?

Thanks again for your reply!!

Hi again, VikingOSX. So I still don't seem to have corrected the problem. I did indeed go through and "Lock" all of the objects in the document. This keeps them in place as intended. The problem now is that when I insert a "page break" at the end of a page of text in one section, it puts that "Locked" object that was on the first page of the following section on the new page of the previous section that I'm adding to.

Here is a screen shot of the first section that has 1 page, the Table of Contents. It's followed by the first 2 pages of the next section:

But then when I place the cursor to insert a page break at the end of the Table of Contents page/section, it adds a page to that first section, but the new page now has that locked object that was locked onto the first page of the 2nd section:

So it appears that Pages will force content into a different section if it is a "locked" object. In this case, it's forcing it from the second section to the newly added page in the first section. Being new to Pages, I'm sure there's some easy fix for this. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance man, I truly appreciate your help.

Thanks regardless man. I appreciate you getting back to me. I did land on a workaround for the time being. I just have to move the section I'm working on to the last section, since it only affects future sections. BTW, where would I lay my hands on the updated version 10.2 of Pages for Mojave that you mentioned?