Insert page break

[jeshkhol]

I have a large ODT document with paragraphs containing only the character sequence “--” scattered throughout. I should replace these with a page break. How do I do this?

Here are two files with some dummy text that illustrate how the document should be changed:
pagebreaks1-before.odt (28.2 KB)
pagebreaks2-after.odt (12.6 KB)

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[Lupp]

Find and replace line breaks with page breaks

Is there any way to use find and replace (with regex enabled) to find every line break (\n) and replace it with a page break (the equivalent of CTRL+Enter)? Thanks,

Addapted for -- in place of line breaks:

You will need to first do a Find&Replace with AltSearch:

• Find --
• Replace with \M
• Replace All

The inserted page breaks may still show the “–”. You can replace these relics with an empty string in the second run.
Without AltSearch it’s complicated. I don’t know a way to do it without a macro.

[Lupp]

If you want to do it in one go you can use specialised UserDefinedCode:

Sub replaceSpecialisedWithPageBreaks()
Const defaultFind = "--"
text = ThisComponent.Text
For Each asIfPara In text
 If asIfPara.String=defaultFind Then
  asIfPara.String = ""
  asIfPara.BreakType = 5
 EndIf
Next asIfPara
End Sub

Be sure to understand that no page break created in one of the described ways has an explicitly defined page style.
This means: If you change the page style with the cursor in one of these pages this will afflict all the pages.