Insert page breaks
For the next few lessons we’re going to use a prepared document. Click below to download
We’ve prepared a document with some text in it already. Click the link below to download and open it.
Tip: If you see a message like the one below, you’ll need to press “Enable Editing”.
Note the headings make navigation easier
The author of this document has followed the steps in this lesson to use consistent heading styles. That means we can easily see the structure of the document and get around it simply. Go to View and make sure “Navigation Pane” is ticked.
This will open a panel on the left that shows you the headings and sub-headings in this document. You can click on any of them to jump to that section. This makes it much faster to get around long documents.
Page breaks
When your text gets to the end of the page, it automatically flows onto the next page.
Word does a good job of trying to keep text together so there’s not a single line of a paragraph at the bottom of the page. This makes it easier to read.
However, sometimes you’ll want to manually tell Word to go to the next page. This is called a “page break”, and we’re going to practice inserting page breaks.
- On the first page of the example document, find the heading “History” and put the cursor in front of the H.
- Go to Layout > Breaks > Page.
Layout > Breaks > Page
You will see the heading “History” has now moved onto its own page.
Practice point: Add a page break so that “History” begins on a new page. Now do the same for the headings “Personality” and “Abilities”.
Pro tip: The keyboard shortcut to add a page break is Alt and I at the same time, then the letter B. This can be remembered as “Insert > Break”.