YOGYAKARTA - Page Break in Microsoft Word is a feature commonly used to quickly separate one page from another. This feature is usually used to create pages with different formats.

The Page Break feature in Microsoft Word is very useful for those of you who work in the field of writing, especially books. The reason is, this feature can help users in numbering the pages of writing that are made.

In addition, the Page Break feature can be used to compile a thesis or paper to make it more presentable. Students usually use this feature to make roman numbers on the front page, table of contents, introduction, and discussion.

Therefore, you can use the feature to insert different formats on each page, according to your preference. If you are interested in using this feature, below the VOI team has compiled the steps to create a Page Break, along with the types.

How to Use Page Breaks in Microsoft Word

To use the Page Break feature in Microsoft Word is quite easy. You can select the page you want to split and differentiate the format from the next page.

After that, you can select the "Layout" menu in your Microsoft Word menu bar. Then select the Break option and select the Page menu.

In addition, you can also use the Page Break feature using a shortcut, by clicking the "Ctrl+Enter" button on your device's keyboard.

When you use Page Break, you can immediately create a new page without changing the position of the content on the previous page.

Therefore, you do not have to bother pressing the “Enter” key continuously on every page when they want to create a new page in your Microsoft Word document.

Page breaks can also separate paragraphs to be placed on a new page. However, page breaks cannot separate page numbers, margins, sizes, fonts, and so on which have different formats.

Later, the new page created by the page break will still have the same format as the previous page format.

In addition, Page Breaks in Microsoft Word have various types and have slightly different functions. However, broadly speaking, its main function is to separate pages from one another.

If Page Breaks only serve to separate pages, there are other breaks that can separate pages while creating a new format that is different from the previous page.

The types of breaks in Microsoft Word include Column Breaks which have a function to separate the columns on each page.

There is also a Next Page that allows users to create a new page or separate the contents of the next page with a different page format from the previous page. In addition, there are also Continuous Breaks, and Even Pages and Odd Pages.

That's how to use Page Break in Microsoft Word. You can use any of the Breaks features according to your needs.


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