Adding page breaks between sections on school forms?

Nathan Ong

We are trying to move our enrollment packet forms onto Blackbaud which have been traditionally sent to parents as PDFs.

Within an enrollment packet are things like allergies/medications, emergency contacts, photo release, etc.

The reason why we wanted to do it all in one form is to make printing easier because every year, copies of each student's enrollment packet is printed and added to their student folder provided to their homeroom teachers.

However, some of those forms need to be separated/copied individually like PE form for our PE instructor, allergies form for our nurse, etc.

I notice when printing out a school form, it'll print it all continuously so you may see the PE form section and photo release section on the same page.

Can you add page breaks between sections? Couldn't find that option, but maybe adding enough blank spacers to ensure the sections are on separate pages?

Ami Naik

Hello! You can add page breaks, but it will not always work. This will really depend on what people fill out on the first page and how much they will in the blanks. It moves the breaks along with that text. It's best to do separate forms and not have them all in form. This allows you to control the form on who and access it and medical release etc. should be a form by itself for nurses office or for PE.

Nathan Ong

Thank you @Ami Naik ! I figured as much as we were playing around with blank sections or blank spaces, but like you said it isn't ideal since that varies and it's not a true page break like in Word or Docs.

The main reason we combine the multiple forms into the one form is because we wanted to print it by student so that in each student's individual binder, given to teachers, has all the forms in one place per student, then pulling out any individual forms as needed.

With the other way with separate forms, I guess we'd be printing out all students' by Form 1, all students' Form 2, etc. then manually having to put together so each student has their Form 1, Form 2 all in one place.

There's labor involved either way, but seems like trying to do one cohesive big form with page broken sections isn't totally possible.

Thank you, again.

Ami Naik

The only thing I can think of is you have the forms separated, but after downloading the individual submissions you can combine them all in one file per child in adobe pro. If you have adob pro then it will allow you to merge multiple files into one. Just a thought.