Looks like this (CSS) is the direction I'm heading. Unfortunately (or not) it requires me to come up to speed on CSS which I've not had a particular need to do over the last few years. It looks like using something like this:

table { 
         page-break-after: auto  
      }
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may offer some relief since most of my data is in tables anyway. I hope to do it all inside my perl script. trying to make as simple to execute and implement as possible. Thank you all, Gretchen