Re: Are format overrides acceptable?

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:14 AM 11/11/99 -0800, Denise Lystad wrote:
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>I am a lone writer at my company and am wondering
>how careful I should be with overrides. For
>instance, if I want to force a page break, should
>I create a new style with the pagination set to
>Start Top of Page or could I just assign a page
>break to the appropriate paragraph as an override?

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You don't need to apply an override, and you don't need to create a new
style for each possible paragraph tag that you want to break a page width.
There's a simple solution:

        Create a paragraph style named "PageBreak". For this style,
        specify a very large space below (say 250 points). Insert 
        this empty paragraph below the last text paragraph or other
        object on the page. This will force the next paragraph to  
        appear at the top of the next page.

You can use Find/Replace to locate all instances of paragraph tag PageBreak,
and delete or move them, thus all forced page breaks are easily
found--something that won't be possible if you apply page break overrides to
other paragraph formats. 
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