When people first begin using MSWord, they tend to create a new page by pushing text down on to the new page using carriage returns. If you have formatting marks displayed, this will show up as a long column of paragraph marks down the left-hand side of the page.

Creating new pages using this method will cause you lots of grief as you work through a document. This is especially so if you go back and make changes in a document, as each time you add or delete a line of text it will disturb your pagination (page format) throughout the entire document.

Luckily there is a solution: the trusty page break. Page breaks will save you valuable formatting and checking time (and prevent a lot of frustration) when a document is finished.

To add a page break to a page:

1. Click on the paragraph mark directly below the last block line on a page.
2. Hit Ctrl+Enter. (This will insert a page break and push any following text onto a new page).