Re: Creating Page Breaks

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jim Drew / Ciao! Publications" <ciaopubs@earthlink.net>
> "Ridder, Fred" <Fred.Ridder@Dialogic.com> writes:
> > There is no way to enter an _ad hoc_ page break in FrameMaker
> > the way you can in Word.
> >
> > 1) Use the Paragraph Designer to apply a format override to the
> > paragraph which you want to have appear at the top of the new page.
> > Do this on the Pagination tab by setting the "Start:" value to "Top of
> > Page" or "Top of Column".
> 
> There is also the Page Break dialog (which was on the Format menu in
> earlier releases, as witness the !opb shortcut, but is now at the top of
> the Special menu in 6.0).

It's in the Special menu also in FM 5.5 (!spb shortcut).

> On the Mac, it also has the shortcut shift-Enter (as in the one
> on the numeric keypad); that brings up the dialog rather than just creating
> a page break automatically, though, so you'll then have to interact with
> the dialog to get what you want.

Don't forget the following two shortcuts that do not bring up the dialog:

Esc j P : "jump Page", start paragraph at top of page
Esc j A : "jump Anywhere", start paragraph anywhere

These two shortcuts set the Pagination/Start value for the paragraph.

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