KeepWithNext paragraph style

[Louley_33]

Hi,

I found instructions for creating a style in RoboHelp that allows me to tag text in RoboHelp and map that to a style in my template that places a page break before the tagged text. These page breaks translate into the printed document. Based off of these instructions, I also created a style called KeepWithNext. My goal in doing this was to ensure screenshots are not separated by a page break from the preceeding numbered steps they illustrate. I created the style in my template, and from the paragraph tab clicked the Keep with next check box to the style. However,this doesn't work predictably. I was able to get it to work; I know this because as I was testing, I discovered that I had created a huge block of text and images that could not be broken. One of the outputs I created streatched into the headers and footers of my printed output. I went back in and tried to separate my keep with next blocks from each other by a carriage return to which I applied the Normal style. I made sure that my numbered text still listed KeepWithNext as the applied style. This seems to have undone any good I did. Now I have images separated from the numbered text they're supposed to illustrate. It's odd to have an image appear at the top of a page, sometimes a turn away from the numbered step. Is there a way to tag an image in RoboHelp to ensure it stays on the same page as the text it illustrates?

Louley

[Louley_33]

I figured this out on my own. I am able to apply the KeepWithNext style to an image in RH. I simply ensure the cursor appears to the left of the image and apply the style. I can see when I output to a word document that the image and the numbered text are chunked into a box, indicated by a blue dotted line. The trick is to ensure that I insert a carriage return between these chunks to ensure I don't get a huge chunk of unbreakable information that would mess up the output.

[Guest]

Hello Louley,

In case it's any help, I created a Macro in Word which applies the keep-with-next paragraph setting. Then I created a shortcut Alt+K (which isn't used for anything else that I can see, and the K reminds me that it's for Keep-with-next).

In use, I click on the image or paragraph that I want to keep-with-next, and hit Alt+K. Quick and easy. I've used this for about 12 years.

If I want to keep an image with the previous paragraph, I created another macro that searches for the next image, then it goes up a line to the previous paragraph, and then applies the keep-with-next rule.

Hope this is helpful.

Best regards, and Happy Christmas!

Philip