Lets look at each break and see how you’re free to use them in your documents.

Where are all the breaks hiding?

If youre using Office 2007 or 2010, you could insert a Page Break from the Insert tab.

How to Use Breaks in Microsoft Word to Better Format Your Documents

All the other breaks are listed in the Page Layout tab.

Ok, now youre ready to add breaks to your document.

A better way is to insert a Column Break.

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This will move you to the next column, leaving your previous text in the first column.

Text Wrapping

Want to have caption text around a picture?

opt for text beside the picture, and select Text Wrapping.

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Alternately, the Continuous break does the same thing without putting you on a new page.

This is the break youll want.

Using Section Breaks with Footers

Formatting footers correctly takes a bit more work.

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By default, your document footers will have the same content even on pages with section breaks.

Now your footers and headers will be fully unique between your document sections.

To do this, check the appropriate box on Options in the Footer and Header Design tab.

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Microsoft often mentions that 90% of its users only use 10% of the features in Office.

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