Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Inserting and Deleting Manual Page Breaks

If you want to force Word to start a new page, click once where you want the new page to begin; then choose Insert, Break, Page Break, and click OK (see Figure 16.4). (Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Enter.)

Figure 16.4. Manually inserted page breaks are visible as dotted lines, like this, in all views.

In general, it's easiest and cleanest to control page breaks with paragraph styles—set a page break before each paragraph with the Chapter Heading style, for example, or force all the text in a Quote style paragraph to appear on one page. That kind of page break setting belongs in the paragraph style—choose ...