One of the features of Microsoft Word is “page breaks”, instructions within a document that tell a printer or a PDF conversion that the document should start a new page at a particular point. Whenever the printer encounters a page break, it will print a new page. MS Word documents can include both automatic and manual page breaks. A Page Break or hard page break is a code inserted by a software program such as word processor that tells the printing device where to end the current page and begin the next. After the Page Break is inserted into the document, a symbol indicating the page break or 'Page Break' is shown, and the cursor is placed on the next page.

Word automatically adds a break at the end of each page. You can also insert a manual page break anytime you want to start a new page in your document.

Insert a manual page break

1. Click in the document where you want to insert a page break.

2. Click Layout > Breaks > Page.

Remove a manual page break

Although you can't remove the page breaks that Word automatically inserts, you can remove manual page breaks from your document.

Insert Page Break Word 2011 Mac Shortcut

1. On the Home tab, click Show all nonprinting characters .

2. Click to select the page break you want to remove.

3. Press DELETE.

Insert a manual page break

Insert Page Break Mac

1. Click in the document where you want to insert a page break.

2. On the Layout tab, under Page Setup, click Break, and then click Page.

Remove a manual page break

Although you can't remove the page breaks that Word automatically inserts, you can remove manual page breaks from your document.

Manual Page Breaks Word

1. If nonprinting characters are not displayed, on the Standard toolbar, click Show all nonprinting characters .

2. Select the page break that you want to remove, and then press DELETE.