Re: [libreoffice-users] SOLVED! (was: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs)

Thanks, Paul.

However, my question has been answered by Andrew yesterday. Unfortunately I 
did not change the subject line, so I'm doing it now for clarification.

Cheers
Nino

On Wednesday 02 May 2012, 13:24:29 Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:

> If you are looking to have more than one record on a page, look into the
> <next record> command
> Writer automatically assumes next record = next page when merging.
>
> Adding <next record> after last field entered, begins repeat of fields
> on same page.
>
>  From menu <Insert><fields><other>, select "next record".
>
> Suppose you have a set of fields.  F1, F2 and F3 in a table.  Add F1, F2
> and F3 on every table row.
> At the end of each row in the table, add <next record>  field after F3.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> On 5/1/2012 4:25 PM, Nino Novak wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when producing MailMerge text documents, semi-automatic Page Breaks are
> > inserted which can only be removed manually one by one, but not "all
> > together" by e.g. selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and removing
> > Page Breaks in the Format Paragraph dialog.
> >
> > XML shows that paragraphs with page breaks are different from paragraphs
> > without page breaks, they bear the name "P4":
> >
> > <text:p text:style-name="P4"...
> >
> > In the automatic styles section, P4 has the following property:
> >
> > <style:style style:name="P4" ...
> >
> >        <style:paragraph-properties style:page-number="1"/>...
> >
> > which - I suppose - is responsible for the page break before this
> > paragraph.
> >
> > Questions:
> > - Can anybody tell me, why in these "automatic" type styles the page
> > break cannot be removed with Strg+A but only one by one?
> > - Can anybody give me a hint how to write a Macro which removes those
> > page breaks? (If it's possible at all - in Spreadsheets there seems to
> > be a function which does a similar job[1], but the described problem
> > might need a bit more sophisticated proceeding).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nino
> > [1]
> > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=41794

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