What are section breaks? Why would you use them? And how do you create them? The answers to these questions are contained in this week's tip. 

 

 

Use section breaks to change the layout or formatting of a specific page or pages within your document without the change affecting other pages within your document.

 

The examples listed below will provide you with insight into situations where section breaks are needed.

 

Example 1: The quarterly report has a page that needs to be formatted as landscape but you want all other pages within to remain in portrait. 

 

Example 2: A page within your document needs to be formatted for two columns but you want all other pages to remain as one column.

 

Example 3: You have a Policies and Procedures manual and you want each chapter of the manual to have a different header and footer. 

 

There is much to know about the different types of section breaks but his week's tip should get you started on the path to understanding and using this very important feature.

 

This week's tip will focus on the Next Page section break type. The Next Page command inserts a section break and starts the new section on the next page. 
 

How to create a Next Page section break

1. Click where you want to start a new page
2. Click Insert >Break
3. Click Next Page located under Section break types

1. Click where you want to start a new page 
2. Click the Page Setup tab
3. Click the Breaks button located in the Page Setup group
4. Click Next Page located under the heading Section Breaks