Define Section Break

Position the insertion pointer just before the section break and then press the delete key.

Define section break. Section breaks are used to signal various changes in a story including changes in time location point of view character mood tone emotion and pace. Or you might want to change header text from. Continuous section break starts the new section on the same page.

Word uses section breaks to divide the document in sections. How to insert a section break. A section break lets you control formatting as needs change.

The second type of document break is the section break which partitions both the body text of the document and its associated formatting such as headers and footers page numbers footnotes margins etc. Of this type there are four kinds. In the page layout page setup section click breaks.

Next page section breaks continuous section breaks even page section breaks and odd page section breaks. A section break is just like a character in your document. This type of section break is often used to change the number of columns without starting a new page.

You might print part or all of a page in landscape in the middle of a portrait document. Odd page section break starts a new section on the next odd numbered page. Each page however is in a different document section.

In word click the page layout tab. When using print layout view the section break looks like a page break. Click the views tab and choose draft from the views group.