Object (of) frustration

In Pages, I can't figure out how to add a right-pointing arrow to a line of text.

Years ago I created a medical history "cheat sheet", using my old Windows computers and Word, for my wife to take each time she visits a doctor. I try to keep it up to date as her many medications change regularly.

It wasn't easy, but I finally got some semblance of it transferred to our new MacBook Pro 16". However one sticking frustration is that I can't get a blue arrow placed to the right of the blue word, "New", at the start of a listing for a new prescription. The "New" is maxed out up against the left margin, but there is space for the arrow before the name of the new Rx, indented one tab.

What I tried to do is choose a right-facing arrow from the "Shape" menu and place it where I put the cursor, then shrink it to size and highlight the word "New" and the arrow with blue. It was easy in Word because there is a simpler arrow to choose, and it places readily where you want it. But with Pages the arrow object appears in large format smack in the middle of the document, displacing all surrounding text. So I pull the corners in to shrink it, and try to drag it to where its meant to go, but it has no draggability. So I then discovered right-clicking on it brought up a menu where I could send it to the left margin. But dragging it to where it needs to be is a chore again, and it keeps wanting to displace the "New" to its right, or further fiddling just displaces other text. I can shrink the arrow and color it, but darned if I can get it placed.

All that said, somewhere along the line last year I apparently found a way to get an arrow placed okay, because the document has a couple since we got this MacBook last year. For the life of me, although I remember struggling with this problem previously, I cannot remember how I finally did it. I'm reverting to using the easier aftermarket Word simulator on a cheap Toshiba W10 laptop. That just seems like it should be unnecessary; there a lot of things about Pages I like, and would certainly prefer to figure it out enough to use more.

I looked for another way to add "objects", but don't see another option for placing an arrow "in line" like the Pages Help indicates I should be able to do.

Thanks for any clarification of what I'm doing wrong.