Page Breaks

PipeDream shows you on the screen where your text will be broken between pages of paper when it is printed out.

Page breaks inserted automatically by PipeDream are called ‘soft’ page breaks; their position changes when you change the amount of text on a page or alter the top and bottom margin settings or page length in the Page Layout dialogue box.

You can also insert ‘hard’ page breaks which will force a new page at a specific point in the document.

Note that hard and soft page breaks appear in different colours so that you can tell the difference between them.

To Insert a Hard Page Break

If you want to ensure that part of the document starts on a new page (a chapter heading, for example):

  1. Position the caret where you would like the page break.
  2. Give the Insert Page command:
Menu Command Tool Key Cmd-sequence
Edit Insert page EIP

A dialogue box appears in which you can specify that the hard page break should only take effect if less than a specified number of lines are left on the page.

For example, before a 16-line table, you would specify 16 to ensure that all 16 lines are kept on the same page. If the command does not need to cause a page break, it will be displayed in column A as ~16.

If you do not need to keep a certain number of lines together, click the OK button or press Return↵.

A page break marker will be drawn across the document and the line containing the caret will start on a new page.

To Remove a Hard Page Break

  1. Position the caret in the row containing the hard page break.
  2. Give the Delete Row command.

The hard page break will be removed.

For information on See
Setting a page width Page Layout