How to? change to different paragraph style only after column/frame break

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.
I've used objecy styles with paragraphy styles and next style turned on but this only seams to work on the first text box not the remaining text boxes that have flowed on text.
HELP!!!!

Eugene Tyson wrote:
For Paragraph Style A go to the Keep Options in the style, and select to Start on Next Page or Next Column or Next Frame - whichever suits.
Then it automagically does it
If the content being flowed-in is correctly tagged with style names, then this would work.
However, I believe the OP wants any paragraph that follows a flow break to be tagged with a specific style. If this is correct, either a script or a plug-in is probably necessary. in-tools.com has some terrific commercial composition tool products; perhaps one can do at least the first step - assigning a style to a paragraph that follows a break.
In InDesign, assigning specific styles to the subsequent paragraphs based on the Next Style property, requires selecting the paragraphs to be assigned. I'm not sure if there's a plug-in or script that can use the break to trigger the Apply Next Style feature.
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
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