How to suppress page breaks (page feed)?

[Robert Homes]

Here is my problem, hope someout out there can help me with it.

First, some clarification. A "page break" is something the word processing
program (e.g., Word) does. A "page feed" is something the Printer does when
you print the document.

Usually, the Printer executes a page feed when it encounters a page break in
a Word document. But the Printer can execute a page feed at other times.
Basically, the Printer executes a page feed when it gets a command (a
printer "control code") sent to it by the software. Thus, putting a page
break in a Word document causes the Printer to do a page feed, because when
Word encounters the page break, it sends a page feed control code to the
Printer.

Each printer has its own set of "printer control codes". In the old days, we
had to be much more familiar with our printer's control codes than we do
now -- DOS and DOS programs often requiured this. Although you rarely need
to send the printer a control code anymore (Windows and Word take care of
almost everything for you), Word still contains the means to send the
printer a control code. For example, the PRINT field lets you do this from
within a document (without even needing to use a macro). You can insert a
PRINT field in a document, insert the appropriate control code in the field,
and when Word prints the document and comes to that field, it will send the
control code contained in the field to the Printer.

Now, FINALLY, here is my problem/question. I want to suppress page feeds
when printing a document. (WHY?, because I am using "continuous feed" paper
on an old dot-matrix printer.) The document will contain "page breaks" (I
don't know how to tell Word NOT to insert "soft" page breaks -- except when
merge printing), but I believe there could be a way to tell the printer to
ignore the page feed commands Word tries to send the printer for each page
break in the document -- by first sending the printer a control code to tell
it to ignore all future page feed commands.

As stated above, each printer uses its own control codes. I am now working
on trying to find the appropriate code (if any) to suppress page feeds on my
printer (a Xerox).

BUT, meanwhile, does ANYONE know how to possibly suppress page feeds when
printing a document in Word (or, does anyone know how to just keep Word from
inserting any page breaks to begin with?)

THANKS for any help you can provide.

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I don't know which Xerox printer you have. However, most of the
tractor-style continuous feed printers have drivers that include
continuous/tractor feed as an option. It might be located in different
places for different drivers. For example, when I set up a generic dot
matrix "IBM" printer, the printer properties (File, Print, Options) control
has a Paper Source option. By setting it to Tractor Feed, I would think
you'd get the effect you want, unless I'm misunderstanding exactly what you
need.

Or... are you saying that the paper is truly continuous, rather than having
perforations every 11 inches? If that's the case, then you might be able to
get the desired effect by setting the document's top and bottom margins to
0.

--
Herb Tyson <ty...@toward.com>
http://www.toward.com/tyson Author of Teach Yourself Outlook 2000 in 24
Hours

Robert Homes <b...@datasync.com> wrote in message
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a long shot, but you might investigate the possibilities of HTML
format, since "pages" are meaningless on a Web site, and I believe there are
therefore no page breaks.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA

Robert Homes wrote in message ...

[ra...@my-deja.com]

Hi Robert,

Why don't you try the hardware approach? It could be that your printer
(it would help if you told us which model you use) has a series of
DIP-switches located in the interior. These can be configured to all
kinds of things, like ignoring an incoming FormFeed (ascii-code 12). The
only problem that may occur is when Word sends a string of Carriage
Returns (ascii 13) or LineFeeds (ascii 10) in stead of the FF.

Richard (NL)

In article <OWdQHQru#GA....@cppssbbsa02.microsoft.com>,

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbar...@zebra.net> wrote:
> This is a long shot, but you might investigate the possibilities of HTML
> format, since "pages" are meaningless on a Web site, and I believe there are
> therefore no page breaks.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft Word MVP
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, AL USA
>
> Robert Homes wrote in message ...
> >Here is my problem, hope someout out there can help me with it.

<<<snipped>>>

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