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Force "page break" in linked text boxes?
I need to flow a multi-page document into several linked text boxes in
another report. Unfortunately, the page breaks of the original document aren't falling in the same place in the text boxes. Ctrl +Enter doesn't work to force a "page break" - that is, to make the text begin at the top of the next text box. Is this possible? If so, what is the magic key combo? Ed |
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Force "page break" in linked text boxes?
No, this is not possible in Word--which has limited options for
controlling the text flow in linked text boxes. Is there a way you can format the documents without using text boxes? If not, you'd better use page layout software such as Publisher. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ed" wrote in message ups.com... I need to flow a multi-page document into several linked text boxes in another report. Unfortunately, the page breaks of the original document aren't falling in the same place in the text boxes. Ctrl +Enter doesn't work to force a "page break" - that is, to make the text begin at the top of the next text box. Is this possible? If so, what is the magic key combo? Ed |
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Force "page break" in linked text boxes?
Thanks for the reply, Stefan.
Is there a way you can format the documents without using text boxes? No. It's a report-within-a-report. The main report is in Word, and this smaller report needs to be inserted. By our style criteria, this inserted report needs to be set off by a border to indicate it's separate. Plus, it's got such a horrible mish-mash of styles and formatting that I don't want it touching my main document! So a series of bordered text boxes seems to be the answer. Ed On Jun 15, 1:06 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: No, this is not possible in Word--which has limited options for controlling the text flow in linked text boxes. Is there a way you can format the documents without using text boxes? If not, you'd better use page layout software such as Publisher. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ed" wrote in message ups.com... I need to flow a multi-page document into several linked text boxes in another report. Unfortunately, the page breaks of the original document aren't falling in the same place in the text boxes. Ctrl +Enter doesn't work to force a "page break" - that is, to make the text begin at the top of the next text box. Is this possible? If so, what is the magic key combo? Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Force "page break" in linked text boxes?
Hi Ed,
Is there a way you can format the documents without using text boxes? No. It's a report-within-a-report. The main report is in Word, and this smaller report needs to be inserted. By our style criteria, this inserted report needs to be set off by a border to indicate it's separate. Plus, it's got such a horrible mish-mash of styles and formatting that I don't want it touching my main document! So a series of bordered text boxes seems to be the answer. I agree with Stefan's analysis. But you are using an IncludeText field? Why not make a copy of the document file, link that in. Press ENTER in the textbox to achieve the breaks you need. Then Ctrl+Shift+F7 to save that back to the file you're linking in. Not ideal, but it may be the best you can do. No, this is not possible in Word--which has limited options for controlling the text flow in linked text boxes. Is there a way you can format the documents without using text boxes? If not, you'd better use page layout software such as Publisher. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ed" wrote in message ups.com... I need to flow a multi-page document into several linked text boxes in another report. Unfortunately, the page breaks of the original document aren't falling in the same place in the text boxes. Ctrl +Enter doesn't work to force a "page break" - that is, to make the text begin at the top of the next text box. Is this possible? If so, what is the magic key combo? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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