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Section Breaks

  
     
Overview

Section breaks work like page breaks, but they're used to isolate sections in a document.

One of the most common uses of section breaks, and one that occurs in almost every document, is the separation of your title page and your table of contents from the main body of your document.

Section breaks also enable you to insert a landscape section in the middle of a document without affecting the page orientation of sections on either side of it.

Finally, section breaks enable you to have different headers and footers, or different watermarks, in different sections of a document. We'll discuss headers and footers a little later. Watermarks are discussed in Part 2 of this training.

 
Create a New Section

To create a new section:

  1. Click on the paragraph mark at the location where you want to insert a section break.
  2. Click Insert on the menu bar. (The Insert menu will open).
  3. In the Insert menu, click on Break… (The Break dialogue box will open).
  4. In the Break dialogue box, under Section break types, click on the radio button beside Next page.

  1. Click OK. (The section break will be inserted and any following text will be pushed down into the new section).
  
Keep an Eye on Sections

The left hand side of the status bar at the bottom of your screen shows you which page and section are displayed on your screen. The example below shows you are on page ten in section three.

Keep an eye on this when you are working with sections.

 
Quick Tip It is best to keep the number of sections in a document to a bare minimum. Having unnecessary sections makes formatting footers more difficult. Delete any unnecessary section breaks to make your life easier and save you time.  
 
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