Line feeding last line of paragraph on a doc into next page

[sandam]

Is it possible to link two paragraphs so that If the second paragraph is pushed on a second page, the trailing line of the preceding paragraph is also pushed on to the same page, but only that one line?

Eg.
page one
---------------------------------------------------------
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK

ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK
ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK

then becomes

page one
----------------------------------------------------------
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK

page two
----------------------------------------------------------
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK

ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK
ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK

Hope this all makes sense??

Andrew;?

[Killian]

hmmmm, yes I just remebered how much I hate programming in Word...
I've sort of worked somthing out for working out which para is where. I'll have to leave the rest to you for now (real work arriving...bah!)
[VBA]Sub test()

'Dim objParagraph As Paragraph
Dim i As Long
Dim iCurrent As Long
Dim iPrev As Long

For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
iCurrent = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Range.Information(wdActiveEndAdjustedPageNumbe r)
If i > 1 Then
iPrev = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i - 1).Range.Information(wdActiveEndAdjustedPageNumber)
End If
If iCurrent = iPrev + 1 And iPrev <> 0 Then
MsgBox iCurrent & ":" & iPrev
'search ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i - 1) for the second "." from the end
'grab from that char pos to end of para and move... some how
End If
Next

End Sub[/VBA]

[sandam]

thanks killian. i'll give it a bash - looks promising, maybe i can keep a bookmark in the template somwhere as a place holder for something - right useful those bookmarks. I'm only just starting to wrap my head around them.

[EricFletcher]

Whatever approach you use, don't forget to turn off widow/orphan control in the paragraph formatting. When on, Word will try to avoid exactly what you want: the last line of a paragraph (a widow line) shuld not normally be allowed to be by itself at the top of a page. (The orphan line is the opposite: a first line of a paragraph should not normally be allowed to be by itself at the bottom of a page.) Both are typesetting conventions.

[fumei]

OK, this COULD be done, but I do not see how you can do it without inserting a page break into the previous paragraph. As in:

araOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK

ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK
ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK

then becomes

page one
----------------------------------------------------------
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK
PageBreak!!!!
page two
----------------------------------------------------------
ParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNKParaOneJUNK

ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK
ParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNKParaTwoJUNK

This can be done. A little weird, but possible. The problem is....you now have a page break. The consequences may not be what you want. What if more text is place into page one? It would push a bit into a next page, but the PageBreak would remain, and you would have a gap.

Could you explain the requirement for doing this?