Inserting breaks

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Inserting breaks

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In the dropdown menu of the Break icon breaks_icon on the ribbon tab Insert (or Layout), you have commands for inserting different types of breaks.

Click on the small arrow dropdown_arrow of the Break icon to select from the break types shown below. For information on how the individual commands work, see the specified sections:

Line break

See Line break – insert manually

Column break and Section break

See Multi-column page layouts and What are sections?

Page break

See Inserting manual page breaks

Chapter break

See Dividing a document into chapters and Outlined documents and chapters

Note: The last selected command from the dropdown menu of the Break icon is marked and the icon assumes the appearance of this command. You can then use this command again by simply clicking directly on the icon itself.

Shortcut key

You can also use the keyboard for the following commands:

Command

 

Windows

Insert line break

 

Shift+

Insert column break

 

Ctrl+Shift+

Insert page break

 

Ctrl+