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Jack - 08 Mar 2006 22:05 GMT

I've seen in several posts how to split each page in a document into a
separate document. And I've seen how to search / replace hard page breaks.
What I can't figure out is how to combine them and do the following -

Take the pages between each hard page break and save them into separate
documents.

The logic should be simple - start a range, go to the next hard page break,
end the range, copy the range, throw it to a new document and save it. But
nailing the ranges by hard page break is killing me.

Thanks in advance.

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Charles Kenyon - 08 Mar 2006 22:46 GMT

Hard page breaks are an anathema. Avoid them if at all possible. Can you use
page-break-before paragraph formatting or next-page section breaks instead?

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> I've seen in several posts how to split each page in a document into a
> separate document. And I've seen how to search / replace hard page
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> Thanks in advance.

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Jack - 08 Mar 2006 22:57 GMT

You lost me there - are you referring to detecting page breaks or existing
page breaks in the document? The document has ~30 pages, most of them
having a [ctrl]+[enter] (hard page break) after a paragraph or two. Some
paragraphs are extremely long and run over to multiple pages. I need to
parse through each of the [ctrl]+[enter] and put any pages between them to a
separate document.

> Hard page breaks are an anathema. Avoid them if at all possible. Can you
> use page-break-before paragraph formatting or next-page section breaks
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>> Thanks in advance.

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Charles Kenyon - 08 Mar 2006 23:16 GMT

I'm referring to hard page breaks. They exist inside paragraphs, which is
where you run into problems, or at least one part of where you run into
problems. You have to work with what you have, just letting you know. Word
just isn't set up to deal with pages as units until print time. I would
suggest trying (on a copy) replacing the hard page breaks with next-page
section breaks and then working with some of the code you've seen.

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> You lost me there - are you referring to detecting page breaks or existing
> page breaks in the document? The document has ~30 pages, most of them
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>>> Thanks in advance.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 09 Mar 2006 05:02 GMT

You should be able to use Find and Replace to replace the hard page breaks
with Section Breaks and then use the following macro:

Dim i As Long, Source as Document, Target as Document, Letter as Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
For i = 1 to Source.Sections.Count
Set Letter = Source.Sections(i).Range
Letter.End=Letter.End-1
Set Target = Documents.Add
Target.Range=Letter
Target.SaveAs FileName:="Letter" & i
Target.Close
Next i

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> I've seen in several posts how to split each page in a document into a
> separate document. And I've seen how to search / replace hard page
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Thanks in advance.

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