So I managed to get rid of the table
by playing with STory editor
and also by extending the text frame
off the page
and progressively deleting
elements that cam from the table
Once that was done I will able to
place the rest of the text that was overset
onto pages so that Ican now work with them
As I suspected, the problem originated in the table
and I believe it has to do with "numbered lists"
in the cells of the table.
Once I got rid of all that that stuff
and it took a while since it was a large table
Indesign wnent back to its regular behavior
Roelf