Page break as part of a paragraph style?

Hello,
is there a way to add page break as part of a paragraph style? I'd like for my "Heading 1" to always start on a blank page.
Thanks!

Use the keep option in the style for the heading itself. Set to start on next page, next odd page, or next even page. The following paragraph style should be set to start anywhere.

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- Before the second town (Dystopia Village, forcing that town to the top of the next column)
- After both (forcing whatever town/county is next to goto the top of the next column)
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I am now wondering about a possible solution. It would be one hell of a challenge for me to figure out how to code it, but I at least need to figure out the theory first, then I'll try to figure out how to code it.
Again, the issue at hand is preventing column breaks for the "listing" style in the following example. Please note, the number of "listing" lines varies. If the following two entries (in a long list of similar entries) were to be near the end of a column, I'm trying to cause the flow of text to break only before a county style, or a town style (if it's not the first town in the county). Basically, no breaks in the middle of listings.
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Utopiatown <styled "town">
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listingNormal has keep with next 1 line applied
listingBreak does not keep with next line
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AND
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~Nate

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[Jongware] wrote:
Did you try Scott's advice: set the Space After of that last paragraph to 20 inch?
When I tried this, it seemed to work, but I decided against suggesting it because I was also playing with some other settings that affected subsequent paragraphs, and I wasn't sure if the combination was making it appear to work. Growing up in FrameMaker, I learned that space before a paragraph is ignored at top of frame/column/page, and space after a paragraph is ignored at bottom of frame/column/page.
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HTH
Regards,
Peter
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KnowHow ProServices

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Nice of you to be doing this for your Mother's Thesis.
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Apple's marketing slogan:
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I'm all over paragraph styles and next styles option, all good, sweet. Love em but...
But when I'm flowing in a long document with multiple text frames on different pages I would like the first paragraph in each of those text frames to be paragraphy style A, then using next styles let it follow on through B, C, etc, till then next time it see's a column/page/frame break character then go back to heading style A.
I can't find a way to do this for love nor money.
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Then, of course, is the question of how should this automation work if editing causes text to reflow across breaks. It's possible this could become the "yo-yo" effect that happens when more consecutive paragraphs than can fit in a text container are tagged with the keep options next and previous.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
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