Is there a way to get VBA code to understand where page breaks are ?

[tonywatsonhelp]

Hi everyone,

I currently have a product list that I want to automate using vba the creation of a price list that I can either send or print as a pdf document.

currently because the style of the product list is different to how I want the price list to be I have a macro that cuts and pastes value the detail from the product list to the price list,
to be honest, even I was surprised at how well this has worked, the frustrating thing is that I get page breaks in the middle of products

So for example I might have 20 rows of camera tripods, but the page break is needed so it put it in and I get half at the bottom of page one and the rest at the top of page two,
ideally I'd like to stop this if possible?

the problems are I can't just tell it where to put the page breaks because I might need to add more stock, so this time I might have 5 cameras, 10 tripods and 6 lights on a page but if I add 2 new cameras and 3 new tripods, the lights are moved down the page ?

I know this might be a bit difficult to explain but I'm having no luck finding an answer so I thought Id ask?

I do have one important fact that might make this possible? the subcatagories (the products I want to keep together and not have a page break through are all in a different column to the products!

so for example everything starts at A30,
So A 30 is "Cameras"
A 31 and all of A is blank as the products are stored in Column B so B31 is first camera, and the next cell in column is the next category? for example "lighting"
So if there was a way to set up the page breaks from the macro, maybe what I need is a macro that says, set page break page 1 A1 to A29, page 2 A30 to the nearest cell with data in it that would be close to the bottom of page two (or the top of page 3) if you see what I mean?

i'll try do a little diagram


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[TD]So this should always be the bottom of page 1[/TD]
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[TD]this is a list of cameras[/TD]
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[TD]32[/TD]
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[TD]one more[/TD]
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[TD]lights[/TD]
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[TD]where as the page break should go here to Lights starts the new page?[/TD]
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[TD]this is lights[/TD]
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[TD]37[/TD]
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[TD]and lights[/TD]
[TD]now the problem is if excel wants to put a page break here I cant stop it! so lights get broken up![/TD]
[TD]see above[/TD]
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[TD]and lights[/TD]
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[TD]39[/TD]
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[TD]and lights these could be any amount but not more then 20 so always within one page size, but could be just one[/TD]
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[TD]tripods[/TD]
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[TD]41[/TD]
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[TD]tripod1[/TD]
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[TD]biscuts[/TD]
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[TD]Could be any stock[/TD]
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Now I'd be happy to put one blank row between each subcategory if that makes it easier?

so to summarise, I need VBA code that can set page breaks to only happen above a Cell in ColumnA that has data in it, but not everytime there is a cell with data in it, only when it is where a pagebreak should be?

if someone could help with this it would be amazing, thanks

Tony