Insert manual page breaks

Crowdie · #1 07-30-2015, 07:19 PM

I have a third part reporting application that creates reports in docx format but doesn't insert pages breaks. I create a template in docx format and it replaces certain sections with graphs, etc. but I need to be able to add page breaks in sections that are part of a loop so the final report could have two, three, four, etc. page breaks. For example:

[Loop=floors]
This is floor <floorname>
<show floorplan>
[Somehow instruct Word to insert a page break here]
[Loop Repeat]

Is there anyway I can create an "instruction" to tell Word to insert a manual page break?

macropod · #2 07-30-2015, 08:24 PM

If there is some consistent text (or even a text pattern), for example, that precedes and/or follows everywhere there should be a page break, you could co it via Find/Replace.

Crowdie · #3 07-30-2015, 08:41 PM

At the moment I have inserted the text "---Break---" into the template and I am doing a find/replace but I was hopeful of finding a more elegant solution.

gmayor · #4 07-30-2015, 09:06 PM

You could run the replacement from a macro via a button on the ribbon, which you may consider more elegant? See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Code:

Sub AddPageBreaks()
Const strFind As String = "---Break---"
Dim oRng As Range
    Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
    With oRng.Find
        Do While .Execute(strFind)
            oRng.Text = ""
            oRng.InsertBreak wdPageBreak
            oRng.Collapse 0
        Loop
    End With
lbl_Exit:
    Set oRng = Nothing
    Exit Sub
End Sub

macropod · #5 07-30-2015, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crowdie

At the moment I have inserted the text "---Break---" into the template and I am doing a find/replace but I was hopeful of finding a more elegant solution.

Why are you inserting "---Break---" into the template? Why not insert the page break instead? Moreover, as I've already said, even that can be done via Find/Replace (or a macro using Find/Replace) if there is some consistent text (or even a text pattern), for example, that precedes and/or follows everywhere there should be a page break. Since you haven't provided any detail about that, at this stage we can only speculate.

Literalman · #6 07-31-2015, 07:36 AM

Is "This is floor <floorname>" always going to be at the top of a new page? If so, how about defining a style for that paragraph, and make one of the style's attributes (under "paragraph") be "Page break before"?

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