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Is it best not to use page breaks?

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
June 13, 2025
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It seems to me that hard-coding page breaks in your text is a bad idea. If you publish your document in a different format, it's going to be a mess.

Wouldn't it be better to adjust page breaks by resizing the text frame and forcing the story to flow onto the next page where you want it to?

Or is there some other strategy people employ when they want to deploy to different-sized media?

How to

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

I agree, inserting manual page breaks causes often a mess and I avoid it.

But resizing frames ia not better.

I recommend to work on the break and keep options in the paragrapg styles. These rules will keep correct breakes based on the content.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

I'm on Team Keep Options.

You can build most situations into your paragraph styles and avoid manual column/page/frame breaks.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Thomas_CalvinAuthor

Inspiring

These are most likely going to be the solution for us. Sometimes we have to track legal approval by page, so we can't have approved & unapproved content mixed by repagination.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Just out of curosity, does legal have to approve each page by signing off each page? If so, do they do it electronically or on an actual printout?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Keep Options as part of the style are extremely useful in this context.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

IMO, resizing frames can cause more problems than it solves, especially if the text ever has to reflow.

I don't like manual page breaks either. I build based-on paragraph styles with breaks built in.

For example:

Heading1

Heading1_PgBk

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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Thomas_CalvinAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks. True enough that resizing the frames still requires manual oversight of every page when the content changes.

The style option is probably the best, but I'm trying to minimize the number of styles that our team members have to wade through. They are not experienced with strict adherence to styles, so I don't want them to look at this huge list and give up before they start.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

I find that the ol' wooden ruler on the knuckles works wonders for enforcing style use! 😜😜

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