Controlling Page Breaks

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As you know if you've created documents of any length, Word automatically adds page breaks at the appropriate points to indicate page divisions and show you how printed pages will look. An automatic page break looks truly like a break between pages—you can see where one page ends and another begins. There will be other instances in which you want to add breaks, however. You might want to add your own manual breaks, section breaks, and column breaks.

Adding Manual Page Breaks

In some cases, you might want to enter your own page break to control where data before of after the break is positioned on the page. You might want to insert a manual page break in the following instances:

  • To prevent a paragraph from being divided across two pages
  • To begin a new section with a heading at the top of a page
  • To end a section when you don't want anything else printed on the current page

To enter a manual page break, place the insertion point where you want to make the break and press Ctrl+Enter. Or, if you prefer, you can choose Insert, Break. The Break dialog box appears, as Figure 21-5 shows.

figure 21-5. you can choose to insert a page, column, or text wrapping break using the break dialog box.

Figure 21-5. You can choose to insert a page, column, or text wrapping break using the Break dialog box.

Inserting Column and Text Breaks

Other breaks you can add include column breaks and text wrapping breaks. When you add a column break by choosing the Insert, Break and selecting Column Break in the dialog box, Word inserts a column break at the insertion point and wraps any remaining text to the next available column.

You'll use the Text Wrapping Break option when you need to force a text break because of an inline graphic, chart, or other element around which you need to wrap text. Instead of leaving a portion of a line or a stray line above an image, for example, you can insert a text wrapping break so the text begins immediately following the graphic.


Troubleshooting

My Printed Document Includes Unwanted Breaks

You finish your document and print a draft. What's this? The document is breaking at odd places...you seem to have mysterious phantom page breaks somewhere in your document. To resolve this problem, click the Show All button on the Standard toolbar. This displays all formatting characters, and you'll be able to look for and delete the unwanted page break character before you print.


For more information on working with sections, see Chapter 9, "Formatting Columns and Sections for Advanced Text Control."



Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out
Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735612781
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 337

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