page break before heading 2 but not heading 1 1

[misterstick]

using styles and/or section breaks, is there any way to have both heading 1 and heading 2 have "page break before" set to true, but to have the page break suppressed where a heading two is the next paragraph after a heading 1?

ie:

heading 1
heading 2
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 2
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 2
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 1
heading 2
normal text
...

at the moment there is always a page break between h1 and h2, leaving h1 on a page by itself.

i can do this with vba but would rather not.

many thanks,


mr s. <

 

[sylve]

Why not add the page break AFTER heading 2?

 

[misterstick]

huh?



mr s. <

 

[slurpee55]

I assume you are working in Excel...rather than having a heading line, why not have Heading 1 and Heading 2 at the top of your first page and then, under File, Page Setup, Sheet have Row 2 (Heading 2's line - whatever it is) as "Rows to repeat at top:"...

 

[misterstick]

sorry, i should have looked more closely at the forum title.

this is in word 2000.

what i have is a list of sql server objects.

Tables
Table1
Table2
..
TableN

Views
View1
View2
...
ViewN

i'd like the documentation for each object to start on a separate page, but also the types of object to start a new page as well.

currently this means that the object type headers (Tabes, Views, etc,) or heading one paragraphs appear on a page by themselves.

is there a way to stop this happening?

many thanks,


mr s. <

 

[Madawc]

If you are working in MS Word, then choose [Styles and Formatting] under [Format] on the menu. Select the format, choose [Modify] and then [Format]. You can now set [Page Break Before].

This will of course cause a break between heading 1 and heading 2. You'll need to individually correct those paragraphys. (If there is some clever way to avoid this last, then I'd be interested to learn it.)

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK)

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi misterstick,

You can't do it with just two styles but you could define a new style, say "Heading 2 Same Page" and base it on "Heading 2" but set "No Page Break Before". You might also set "Heading 1" style so that the next style is "Heading 2 Same Page". You could then have what you ask like this:

heading 1
heading 2 same page
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 2
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 2
normal text
...

---page break----
heading 1
heading 2 same page
normal text
...

Any changes you made to "Heading 2" would be automatically carried forward to "Heading 2 Same Page", and all the "Heading 2" and "Heading 2 Same Page" styled paragraphs would have the same Outline Level.

That's as close as I can see how to do it.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[fumei]

Tony's answer is the right one. Define specialized styles to handle specialized circumstances.

Gerry