How to add a page break in word document generated by RStudio & markdown

Added: To insert a page break, please use \newpage for formats including LaTeX, HTML, Word, and ODT.

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/pagebreaks.html

Paragraph before page break.\newpageFirst paragraph on a new page.

Previously: There is a way by using a fifth-level header block (#####) and a docx template defined in YAML.

After creating headingfive.docx in Microsoft Word, you select Modify Style of the Heading 5, and then select Page break before in the Line and Page Breaks tab and save the headingfive.docx file.

---title: 'Making page break using fifth-level header block'output:   word_document:    reference_docx: headingfive.docx---

In your Rmd document, you define reference_docx in the YAML header, and now you can use the page-breaking #####.

Please see below.

https://www.r-bloggers.com/r-markdown-how-to-insert-page-breaks-in-a-ms-word-document/

With the help of John MacFarlane and others on the pandoc google group, I put together a filter that does this. Please see:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/FzLrhk0vVbUIn short, the filter needs to look for something to replace with the openxml for pagebreak. In this case\newpageis being replaced with <w:p><w:r><w:br w:type=\"page\"/></w:r></w:p>This allows for a single latex markup to be interpreted for both pdf and word output.Joel

What you are trying to do is force a "page break" or "new page" in a word document generated with Pandoc. I have found a way to do this in my environment but I'm not sure it will work in every environment.

My environment:* R-studio / Pandoc / MS-WORD starting with an "*.Rmd" file and generating a DOCX file.

In my RMD file the key idea is that i've created what acts like a TEMPLATE document (MyFormattingDocument.docx) and in that word document I tweak the STYLES for things like "Heading 1" and/or "Heading 2" and or "footnote" or whatever other predefined styles I want to tweak.

(SEE THIS: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/word_document_format.html#style-reference ) for explanation of style reference and how to set the header information in your RMD file to specify a reference document.

SOOOO in my case... i tweak the "Heading 1" style in WORD to include a forced "Page Break Before" in the Paragraph formatting for "Heading 1". Exactly how you force every "Heading 1" to always "Page Break" is different in different versions of Microsoft WORD but if you follow the WORD documentation and modify the "Heading 1" style THEN every "Heading 1" will always have a pagebreak before it.

THEN... you save this template file in the some directory you're working from with the RMD file... and it is USED AS a template. THE CONTENTS of the file are ignored.... so don't worry... you can put sample text in this file and test that the formatting all works.... THE CONTENTS ARE IGNORED but the STYLES are USED in the new word document which will be built by the RMD file so.... then every "Heading 1" will have a break before it.

NOTE: You could obviously do the same with ANY style that has a one-to-one mapping from PANDOC MARKUP so you could instead just make all "Heading 3" or whatever.... just look at see in your RMD created DOCX what "STYLE" is being applied and then tweak that style even if you need to insert some "fake" lines with essentially blank content just for the purpose of forcing a style to appear in the DOCX