need page break macro help

[overthreat]

When Excel plants an automatic page break, it cares not if it devides up a
block of text. I want to write a macro that will search a document for
automatic page breaks, then scan upwards in the document until it finds a
blank row...and then have it put a manual page break on that row.

Is this a fantasy, or is it possible? I have a 50 page spreadsheet with
blocks of statistics that need to remain intact. Manually setting page
breaks takes hours, and after I put in new data I need to do it all over
again. I first tried using rows as an indicator, say only 25 rows on page
will fit. This almost worked, but the row height changes as text wraps
around in cells so one page might have 20 rows, while the next might have
only 3 with large cells of wrapping text.

aaaaarrRRGGGHH!!

overthreat

[Thomas Ogilvy]

This is based on a technique posted by Bob Umlas

Here is a method to get an array of horizontal pagebreaks and vertical
pagebreaks. The horizontal pagebreaks are a list of rows that have the
pagebreak and vertical a list of column numbers:

Sub Tester1()
Dim horzpbArray()
Dim verpbArray()
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="hzPB", _
RefersToR1C1:="=GET.DOCUMENT(64,""Sheet1"")"
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="vPB", _
RefersToR1C1:="=GET.DOCUMENT(65,""Sheet1"")"
i = 1
While Not IsError(Evaluate("Index(hzPB," & i & ")"))
ReDim Preserve horzpbArray(1 To i)
horzpbArray(i) = Evaluate("Index(hzPB," & i & ")")
i = i + 1
Wend
ReDim Preserve horzpbArray(1 To i - 1)
Debug.Print "Horizontal Pagebreaks (rows):"
For J = LBound(horzpbArray, 1) To UBound(horzpbArray, 1)
Debug.Print J, horzpbArray(J)
Next J

i = 1
While Not IsError(Evaluate("Index(vPB," & i & ")"))
ReDim Preserve verpbArray(1 To i)
verpbArray(i) = Evaluate("Index(vPB," & i & ")")
i = i + 1
Wend
ReDim Preserve verpbArray(1 To i - 1)
Debug.Print "Vertical Pagebreaks (columns):"
For J = LBound(verpbArray, 1) To UBound(verpbArray, 1)
Debug.Print J, verpbArray(J)
Next J
End Sub

This uses an Excel 4 macro to get this information. This is much faster
than the VBA pagebreak which uses the printer driver and can be very slow.

The is a pagebreak property of the range. It can be tested to see if a
pagebreak exists

if rows(6).pagebreak = xlNone then
'No pagebreak
Else
' Has pagebreak
if rows(6).pagebreak = xlPageBreakAutomatic then
'Automatic pagebreak
elseif rows(6).pagebreak = xlPageBreakManual then
' Manual pagebreak
End if
End if

Combining the above gives:

Sub Tester1()
Dim horzpbArray()
Dim verpbArray()
Dim brkType As String
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="hzPB", _
RefersToR1C1:="=GET.DOCUMENT(64,""Sheet1"")"
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="vPB", _
RefersToR1C1:="=GET.DOCUMENT(65,""Sheet1"")"
i = 1
While Not IsError(Evaluate("Index(hzPB," & i & ")"))
ReDim Preserve horzpbArray(1 To i)
horzpbArray(i) = Evaluate("Index(hzPB," & i & ")")
i = i + 1
Wend
ReDim Preserve horzpbArray(1 To i - 1)
Debug.Print "Horizontal Pagebreaks (rows):"
For j = LBound(horzpbArray, 1) To UBound(horzpbArray, 1)
If Rows(horzpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlNone Then
brkType = "None"
Else
' Has pagebreak
If Rows(horzpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlPageBreakAutomatic Then
brkType = "Automatic"
ElseIf Rows(horzpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlPageBreakManual Then
brkType = "Manual"
Else
brkType = "Unknown"
End If
End If

Debug.Print j, horzpbArray(j), brkType
Next j

i = 1
While Not IsError(Evaluate("Index(vPB," & i & ")"))
ReDim Preserve verpbArray(1 To i)
verpbArray(i) = Evaluate("Index(vPB," & i & ")")
i = i + 1
Wend
ReDim Preserve verpbArray(1 To i - 1)
Debug.Print "Vertical Pagebreaks (columns):"
For j = LBound(verpbArray, 1) To UBound(verpbArray, 1)
If Columns(verpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlNone Then
brkType = "None"
Else
' Has pagebreak
If Columns(verpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlPageBreakAutomatic Then
brkType = "Automatic"
ElseIf Columns(verpbArray(j)).PageBreak = xlPageBreakManual Then
brkType = "Manual"
Else
brkType = "Unknown"
End If
End If

Debug.Print j, verpbArray(j), brkType
Next j
End Sub

Sample Output:
Horizontal Pagebreaks (rows):
1 13 Manual
2 24 Manual
3 39 Manual
4 67 Manual
5 87 Manual
6 114 Automatic
Vertical Pagebreaks (columns):
1 2 Manual
2 6 Automatic

This should get you started.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

overthreat wrote in message <3752c...@news.a-znet.com>...

[BobUmlas]

I did that? Cool!
You took it further than I did, Tom, but thanks for the mention!

Thomas Ogilvy wrote in message ...