Word 2013 on Demand

Inserting New Pages and Sections

When you fill a page, Word inserts a page break and starts a new page. As you add or delete text, this soft page break moves. A soft page break appears as a dotted gray line in Normal view. To start a new page before the current one is filled, insert a hard page break that doesn’t shift as you edit text. A hard page break appears as a dotted gray line with the text page break centered in Normal view. A section is a mini-document within a document that stores margin settings, page orientation, page numbering, and so on. In any view, you can collapse (New!) or expand (New!) sections or parts of a document with headings. In Print Layout view, you can show or hide the white space on the top and bottom of each page ...