Navigation:  Page formatting > Inserting manual page breaks

Write automatically fills the pages of a document by default. When the text reaches the end of a page, an automatic page break is performed and the text continues on the next page. If you want to start a new page before the text has reached the end of the current page, you can always insert a manual page break.

To do so, move the text cursor to the position at which the new page should start.

On the ribbon tab Insert (or ribbon tab Layout), click on the black arrow of the Break icon for the dropdown menu and select Page break there. Alternatively, you can use the shortcut key Ctrl+↵.

Write now inserts a forced page break.

Tip: If you have enabled the icon for formatting marks on the ribbon tab Home | group Paragraph (see also Showing non-printable characters), the manual page break will be displayed with a dotted line.

If you need to remove a manual page break that you have forced in this manner, you can do so by positioning the text cursor at the beginning of the first paragraph following the break and pressing the Backspace keyÕ.

Specifying a page break before a certain paragraph

Note: This option, which differs in its properties from the function described above, can only be set via the dialog box of the command group "Paragraph".

In addition to forcing a premature page break via the ribbon tab Insert | Break | Page break, you can also do it in a different way and with a different function: by giving a paragraph the attribute "Always make a page break before this paragraph".

To do so, place the text cursor in the desired paragraph, and click on the group arrow in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Home| group Paragraph to open the dialog box. Switch to the Text flow tab and enable the option Page break there.

Write will then always insert a page break before this paragraph – even if you move the paragraph to a different place in the text.