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When you write something in docx file and you are at the end of the page Microsoft world automatically render you to a new blank page . is there any way you can know with python docx if you are in the new page.

GED98
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  • have you checked in documentation? breaks should be available in runs in docx, see https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/analysis/features/text/breaks.html – Maciej Wrobel Jan 28 '22 at 13:55

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There is 2 types of page breaks in word documents, soft and hard. Soft break are not not detectable and hard page break.

Here is a good post about it https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53084249/python-docx-identify-a-page-break-in-paragraph#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20way%20to%20detect%20soft%20page,you%27ll%20find%20a%20more%20elaborate%20explanation%20of%20this.

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  • This answer could probably be a comment, unless you cite the specific parts of the cited source that are relevant to the question (AND provide an attempt to answer the question) – aaossa Mar 04 '22 at 20:12
  • Thanks for linking to the other SO question, Laurent. That question's accepted answer suggests that soft breaks are actually detectable, so I've submitted another answer based on your link. Cheers! – Esteis Mar 08 '22 at 13:44
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As I understand it, a docx paragraph consists of runs, and some of those runs are or contain a page break. (I don't know the data model, so I don't know whether 'some runs are' or 'some runs contain' is correct.)

This other answer on Stack Overflow says that it is possible to detect whether a run is/contains a soft page break.

Hopefully you can use that to determine whether your text is before or after the soft page break. I hope this helps.

Esteis
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