Hello,

I am trying to make a template.  There will be 2 stationary frames for text 
and one linked frame for overflow to another page.  I have already linked the 
2 frames.  The first one is on page 1 and the second one is on page 2.  That 
all works fine.  But if there is overflow from page 2 I know I need to make a 
page 3 and link that frame to page 2.  But what if there is no text overflow 
to page 3.....will it print a blank page?  How do I make it so it knows to 
automatically overflow (if necessary)?  

Set up the document with the third page containing a text box that is linked 
to that on page 2 and use a macro containing the following code to print the 
document:

Dim LastPage As String
With ActiveDocument
    With .Shapes(2).TextFrame
        If .Overflowing = True Then
            LastPage = "3"
        Else
            LastPage = "2"
        End If
    End With
    .PrintOut Range:=wdPrintFromTo, From:="1", To:=LastPage
End With


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"MRupel" <MRupel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make a template.  There will be 2 stationary frames for 
> text
> and one linked frame for overflow to another page.  I have already linked 
> the
> 2 frames.  The first one is on page 1 and the second one is on page 2. 
> That
> all works fine.  But if there is overflow from page 2 I know I need to 
> make a
> page 3 and link that frame to page 2.  But what if there is no text 
> overflow
> to page 3.....will it print a blank page?  How do I make it so it knows to
> automatically overflow (if necessary)? 

Thank you Doug!  Haven't tried it yet but I'm working on it.  Something else came to mind.... When the text overflows to the new page I need for the other 2 stationary fields to be on the newly created page.  Not only for printing reasons but also for data entry reasons.  Any thoughts?

You could have  an empty paragraph before the first textbox to which you add 
a bookmark (say "Box1") and then if the .Overflowing property of the second 
textbox is true, format that paragraph in that bookmark so that it has a 
page break before it, using:

Dim LastPage As String
With ActiveDocument
    With .Shapes(1).TextFrame
        If .Overflowing = True Then
            LastPage = "2"
        Else
            LastPage = "1"
        End If
    End With
    If LastPage = "2" Then
        .Bookmarks("Box1").Range.ParagraphFormat.PageBreakBefore = True
    End If
    .PrintOut Range:=wdPrintFromTo, From:="1", To:=LastPage
End With
MsgBox LastPage

You may want to reduce the size of the linespacing for the paragraph to 
which the bookmark is applied to the minimum so that the empty paragraph 
doesn't screw up the layout any more than cannot be avoided.

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"MRupel" <user@msgroups.net/> wrote in message 
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> Thank you Doug!  Haven't tried it yet but I'm working on it.  Something 
> else came to mind.... When the text overflows to the new page I need for 
> the other 2 stationary fields to be on the newly created page.  Not only 
> for printing reasons but also for data entry reasons.  Any thoughts?
>
>
> ---
> frmsrcurl: 
> http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/linking-frames-for-text-overflow 

Also, I was trying to do this with Word 97 or something and I saved it .doc and .txt but neither would retain the formatting.  So I am going to use Word 2000.  Will the Word 2000 document open in Word 2007?

I am not sure too what formatting you are referring.  regular Word 
formatting would be retained if a document was saved as a Word document 
(.doc); it will not be retained if the document is saved as a text file 
(.txt).

Word 2007 will open Word 97 - 2003 documents in compatibility mode.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"MRupel" <user@msgroups.net/> wrote in message 
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> Also, I was trying to do this with Word 97 or something and I saved it 
> .doc and .txt but neither would retain the formatting.  So I am going to 
> use Word 2000.  Will the Word 2000 document open in Word 2007?
>
> ---
> frmsrcurl: 
> http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/linking-frames-for-text-overflow 

Hi Doug,

Thank you so much for your help.   I've been trying to make a one page 
template where there are three areas for text input.  The problem I'm having 
is:  if there is more text than just the first page I need it to create a 
second or third page with the 3 areas.  How can I do this? 

Is this question related to something different from that in respect of 
which I have provided the previous responses.  If so, maybe you should not 
be using text boxes.

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"MRupel" <MRupel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Doug,
>
> Thank you so much for your help.   I've been trying to make a one page
> template where there are three areas for text input.  The problem I'm 
> having
> is:  if there is more text than just the first page I need it to create a
> second or third page with the 3 areas.  How can I do this? 

This is actually one and the same....if not text boxes then what ?

Any thoughts?  Anyone?

Did not the information that I posted for your previously do what you want?

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"MRupel" <MRupel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> This is actually one and the same....if not text boxes then what ? 

It seems that the "box1" is inside the main content area instead of above it. 
  I also need a "box2" to generate below the main content area.  Any thoughts?

No problem.....thank you so much for your help.