Learn how to insert Section Breaks in a Microsoft Word document. Break up long texts to make the composition more coherent.

Specifically, by adding a section break, Word lets you format sections differently. In this document, I’ll show you how to format a document’s front matter page numbers differently from those ...

Section breaks are the key to keeping the headers intact when you insert a document. If you use a page break instead, Word will strip the headers from the inserted file.

Learn how to remove all section breaks at once from a Word document. This guide hepls you delete multiple section breaks in bulk.

When you convert text to columns or back to regular page-wide text, Word inserts continuous-section breaks into the document each time the column formatting changes.

Section breaks can accidentally create blank pages, especially if they’re set to start a new page or section. To manage this, change the section break settings to Continuous.