So again, we need to put our cursor somewhere after a section break. When setting different headers and footers, the thing to remember is that you are setting what happens to this header/footer compared to the one in the previous section. We don’t always want this though we may want different information in each chapter, or we may want no header or footer on the title page or contents pages, for example. The default for restarting the numbering is to start back at 1, but you can also choose to start your section page numbering at any number you wish by using the spinner or typing a number in.īy default, when you set up a header or footer for your document, it will display the same on every page of the document. In the bottom part of the Page Number Format dialog, select whether you want to continue the numbering from the previous section or start the numbering again. To set this, put your cursor somewhere after the section break, and go to Insert | Header & Footer | Page Number | Format Page Numbers.
In a standard book format, odd numbers are usually on the right-hand side, so if you want your new section to start on the right-hand page, select an Odd Page section break. These options allow you to format your text for printing in book format, and choose whether your section will start on the left or right page of the book. It’s very similar to a regular page break, except that it allows you to change other page layout and formatting options in the new section. The Next Page break does exactly what it says on the box – starts your next section on a new page. (After the table, I would then need to add another continuous break to go back to the regular margins for the next part of the document.)Ĭontinuous Section Breaks are useful to add invisible dividers within a document. In the example below, I have kept the regular page margins for the text part of the document, but added a continuous section break so I can reduce the margins on the lower part of the page to give my table a bit more room.
Have different margins on different sections of the same page.Word will normally add continuous section breaks automatically when setting columns. Have different numbers of text columns on the one page.Possibly the most common section break is the continuous or invisible section break.Ī continuous break will start your new section on the same page. You will see that there are four different types of break to choose from. To insert a section break, click where you want the break to occur, and go to Layout | Page Setup |Breaks. A document in portrait orientation can have a Section Break to switch to landscape. They allow you to change formatting aspects that would otherwise be the same throughout a document, such as page orientation, margins, columns, headers and footers.Ĭolumn changes (2, 3 or more columns) need Section Breaks before and after. Now you can see the text wrapping break, just click before the break symbol and hit Delete.Section breaks are probably one of the most useful features in Word when you are formatting complicated documents. It’s easiest to remove a text wrapping break if you can see it, and to see it you need to turn on Show Hidden Characters under Home | Paragraph. This time if we delete some of the text or make other changes, the paragraph will still drop below the picture at the same point as before. Now the text has dropped below the picture without using any superfluous paragraph breaks. To insert a text wrapping break, put your cursor where you want the text to break, and go to Layout | Page Setup | Breaks, and select Text Wrapping. That’s why we have the text wrapping break – to ensure that when we put a break in text around an image, it stays where we want it. Below I have removed some of the text, and now the “Well I hope…” text is no longer below the image. The problem with this method is that if you later make changes such as moving the picture or adding or removing text, the text wrap will no longer be in the place you wanted it. When you have text wrapping around a picture, you may be tempted to just put in extra line breaks or paragraph breaks when you want to shift text down below the picture, as below. The text wrapping break lets you specify the point where the text should drop down below the picture. When including images or other objects in a Word document, it can sometimes be a bit fiddly getting the text to flow around them in the way you want.