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| | To insert a hard page break, click where you want to break the page and press Ctrl+Enter . | -
| | Word inserts a hard page break at the insertion point, and moves the text below the break onto the next page. | -
| | To remove a hard page break, click at the beginning of the first line underneath the break, and press the Backspace key. The page break disappears. | -
| | Page breaks look different in Normal view. To see how they appear, choose View, Normal . | INTRODUCTION When you fill up a page with text, Word inserts a soft page break to end the page and wrap text to the next page. There are times, however, when you need to end a page before it's filled with text. To do so, you insert a hard page break . For example, you can use a hard page break to separate a title page from the text that follows , or to start a new section of a report at the top of the next page. | -
| | In Normal view, a soft page break appears as a horizontal dotted line running across your document. | -
| | A hard page break appears as a horizontal dotted line with the words Page Break in the middle of it. | -
| | To remove a hard page break while in Normal view, click on the dotted line and press Delete . | TIP Previewing Page Breaks You can see the results of inserting a hard page break most clearly by switching to Print Preview or by changing the Zoom setting in Print Layout view to Whole Page. (See "Previewing a Document" and "Magnifying a Document" in Part 5.) | |