>>>I'm creating a graph in Word, by creating a canvas and then adding lines, dots, tiny circles, textboxes etc. The graph is of a very special nature, so please don't recommend other graphing tools, thanks, they just can't do this. This actually works quite nicely in Word.
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>>>The problem arises when I try to add a page - this report is supposed to have one graph per page. When I do
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>>>oDoc.InsertBreak(wdPageBreak)
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>>>oDoc.Shapes.Count goes to zero. IOW, my canvas vanishes. Tried other things - add a paragraph, select it, create a canvas, it anchors to the paragraph, but the paragraph text vanishes. Then I try to set the paragraph's text, the canvas vanishes.
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>>>Is there any system to this? I'd like to just build the document, not to hunt its vanishing parts.
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>>This is a SWAG, but what might be happening is that, when you fire the command to create a new page, the "focus" is still on your graphic, so it's replaced by the Page Break. Maybe you could try moving the "focus" off your graphics (e.g. by adding a CRLF just after them) and then try the page break.
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>And vice versa... experimenting further, anything selected when a canvas is added is replaced by the canvas.
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>Of course, Word knows how to do that from the menu. Just click the textbox on the drawing toolbar and it draws a canvas at the insertion point, with "Place your text here" in large friendly font all over it, but guess what - it doesn't work if you're recording a macro.
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>FWIW, using Office 2003, and its help is nearly worthless. There's close to zero information on how to anchor a canvas - except that the last parameter should be a range to anchor to. Well, it can't be just about any range, it needs to be document.selection (at least nothing else worked so far). Now I only need to find a way to not select the whole paragraph... or to just sacrifice an empty one.

Is there a way to select "nothing" - i.e. an empty range, or a range where the start and stop are the same? The same idea as an actual Word document - you can have a current insertion point without any text or graphics being selected.