Inserting and modifying section breaks

Breaks in a document are extremely useful if you would like to have a different layout or formatting changes for a certain section of the document, a page, or pages. By formatting or layout, we mean margins; paper size or orientation; page borders; vertical alignments of text; headers and footers; columns; page numbering; line numbering; and footnote/endnote numbering. The following is an explanation of these special break types:

• Continuous: A continuous section break is inserted before and after a portion of text on the same page. Changing text into columns is an example of where a continuous break is used:

• Even Page or Odd Page: This prepares the document for formatting changes on all the odd pages only of the document or only on all the even pages throughout the document. You might like to place a header or footer on only the odd pages in the document, and therefore would insert an odd page section break:

• Next Page: This section break being inserted instead of a normal page break (before and after the page) will control what happens on that page only. This type of section break is very useful when you want to create portrait pages followed by one landscape page, and thereafter the document returns to portrait mode. Another use for this type of break is to sort out a problem table that is too big to fit on a portrait page!

Now, we will learn how to locate and insert Next Page section breaks into a document to create different page orientation layouts in a single document.