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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
I have a straightfoward outline structure (Heading 1 = "1"; Heading 2 = "1.1"). Currently I have Heading 1 defined with a "page break before". Now I want to keep that, but also starting Heading 2 on a new page, UNLESS it is immediately preceded by a Heading 1 (no need for a page break, since the Heading 1 generated already a page break). Setting "page break before" for Heading 2 doesn't work, since it leaves the Heading 1 titles on a for the rest empty page (the 1.1, 2.1, 3.1 etc. start on a new page). Intuitively I hoped it would work as with the "space before", i.e. that it wouldn't be cumulative for paragraph styles that followed each other. But it is... I tried solving it by removing the "page break before" from Heading 1, and just keeping the "Keep with next", but this didn't work. How to make this work? |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
Create a second style that is the same as heading 2 except no page break
before. Use that when needed. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Peter K." wrote in message ... I have a straightfoward outline structure (Heading 1 = "1"; Heading 2 = "1.1"). Currently I have Heading 1 defined with a "page break before". Now I want to keep that, but also starting Heading 2 on a new page, UNLESS it is immediately preceded by a Heading 1 (no need for a page break, since the Heading 1 generated already a page break). Setting "page break before" for Heading 2 doesn't work, since it leaves the Heading 1 titles on a for the rest empty page (the 1.1, 2.1, 3.1 etc. start on a new page). Intuitively I hoped it would work as with the "space before", i.e. that it wouldn't be cumulative for paragraph styles that followed each other. But it is... I tried solving it by removing the "page break before" from Heading 1, and just keeping the "Keep with next", but this didn't work. How to make this work? |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
I usually work around this by applying or removing the formatting as
required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Peter K." wrote in message ... I have a straightfoward outline structure (Heading 1 = "1"; Heading 2 = "1.1"). Currently I have Heading 1 defined with a "page break before". Now I want to keep that, but also starting Heading 2 on a new page, UNLESS it is immediately preceded by a Heading 1 (no need for a page break, since the Heading 1 generated already a page break). Setting "page break before" for Heading 2 doesn't work, since it leaves the Heading 1 titles on a for the rest empty page (the 1.1, 2.1, 3.1 etc. start on a new page). Intuitively I hoped it would work as with the "space before", i.e. that it wouldn't be cumulative for paragraph styles that followed each other. But it is... I tried solving it by removing the "page break before" from Heading 1, and just keeping the "Keep with next", but this didn't work. How to make this work? |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I usually work around this by applying or removing the formatting as required. I agree this seems an "accepted use" of direct formatting. Especially when they are numbered, a second style could give headaches to setup. I've once written a toggle macro which changes the page break before property of Heading 1 for a custom template where CI dictated that a page break before was due, but the users wanted to have the freedom to suppress it (on a document basis) when the document was short. For suppressing individually, one would need a toggle macro which simply switches the property of the selected paragraph. [Or, w/o VBA, setup the style without the property, and offer a button which sets it and one which does ResetPara.] 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
More simply, you can use Tools | Customize to assign the ParaPageBreakBefore
command to a toolbar button (it will be a toggle). I haven't actually gotten around to doing this (though I should), but I do have one for Keep with Next, which is an incredible timesaver. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I usually work around this by applying or removing the formatting as required. I agree this seems an "accepted use" of direct formatting. Especially when they are numbered, a second style could give headaches to setup. I've once written a toggle macro which changes the page break before property of Heading 1 for a custom template where CI dictated that a page break before was due, but the users wanted to have the freedom to suppress it (on a document basis) when the document was short. For suppressing individually, one would need a toggle macro which simply switches the property of the selected paragraph. [Or, w/o VBA, setup the style without the property, and offer a button which sets it and one which does ResetPara.] 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
More simply, you can use Tools | Customize to assign the ParaPageBreakBefore command to a toolbar button (it will be a toggle). Ahhh, I've used that very button but did not realize it was a toggle, cool -- thanks! Guess I'll have go through those buttons again (as long as I can/they're still accessible ... ;-)). Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulative
I know what you mean. I'm really dreading upgrading.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: More simply, you can use Tools | Customize to assign the ParaPageBreakBefore command to a toolbar button (it will be a toggle). Ahhh, I've used that very button but did not realize it was a toggle, cool -- thanks! Guess I'll have go through those buttons again (as long as I can/they're still accessible ... ;-)). Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Subsequent Heading styles with "page break before" are cumulat
Thanks all for your replies. I created the second style "Heading2bis" (based on the original Heading2), and off course this worked. Probably next time I'll just do the manual formatting (something I try to avoid as much as possible) as suggested in the later replies. Anyway, both are workarounds, and according to me, keeping the "page break before" always cumulative is a badly implemented feature (it isn't a bug though). It can't be that difficult to foresee this type of problems (it was implemented for the "space before" and "space after", so somebody must have thought about it). Does anybody know whether this has improved in the new Word version that will be released soon? Thanks, Peter |
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