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Word Template - locking text on a page
I have a word template that has field data that is populated with data from a
SQL database. When one of the fields being populated uses multiple lines, the entire document is advance down. This causes information from the next pages to advance down messing up the formatting. Is there a way to lock the text in parts of the document and only allow other parts to move? The first page contains the data from the SQL Database and some blank space to allow the text to move down. The second page and following pages need to remain how they appear in the document. Thank |
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Word Template - locking text on a page
Robbie0731 wrote:
I have a word template that has field data that is populated with data from a SQL database. When one of the fields being populated uses multiple lines, the entire document is advance down. This causes information from the next pages to advance down messing up the formatting. Is there a way to lock the text in parts of the document and only allow other parts to move? The first page contains the data from the SQL Database and some blank space to allow the text to move down. The second page and following pages need to remain how they appear in the document. Thank If the "blank space" at the bottom of the first page consists of empty paragraph marks, remove it. Instead, mark the first paragraph of the second page with the paragraph formatting "Page break before" (on the Line and Page breaks tab of the Format Paragraph dialog). After this change, if the information inserted from the database is long enough to overflow the first page, it will create a new second page, and what was the second page will become the third. As long as the data stays within the first page, though, nothing on the second page or later will move. If that isn't acceptable, you can put the data field on the first page into a table, and set the table's row height to an Exact measurement in the Table Properties Rows dialog. Then if the data is too long, it will just not display anything below the bottom of the table. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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