I have created a macro to resize and format a report from a text file. I have added a macro to add a page break prior to a certain word that appears at the top of each page in the text file. The problem is my report always give me a blank page to start the completed report. How can I remove that initial page break ONLY?



Mike

Depending on what's on the first page it might be nothing more complicated than:
ActiveDocument.Range.Characters.First.Delete

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Paul Edstein
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That didn't work. The first page still shows up as blank. I can bring up the hidden characters and it looks like a bunch of small dots with Page Break in the middle.

That suggests there's something other than just the page break on your first page - paragraph breaks and/or spaces perhaps? If there's just a single paragraph break (a symbol that looks like ¶) before the page break, simply execute the line of code I posted twice. If there's more than that, post back with the details.

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Paul Edstein
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I got it figured out. You can't use the mouse to select items when using the record macro tool. So I just used the keyboard when recording to get the code for removing the page break and it worked. I just used shift/end to highlight and then delete. Thanks for your help.

Mike

That's a less-than-ideal way of doing things in VBA but, if it works for you, I guess that's what matters.

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Paul Edstein
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