You can use section breaks to change the layout or formatting of pages in your document. To change formatting in a document, insert a section break at the beginning of where you want the change.

Add section break to customize your document's headers and footers, format, layout, and page numbering.

To use different page numbers or formats in different sections, create Page breaks and set page number for each.

In the Section start list, choose the kind of section break that you want. You can't change section breaks in Word for the web. Open in Word for the desktop and change section breaks there.

Double-click the header or footer on the first page of the new section. Select Link to Previous to turn it off and unlink the header or footer from the previous section.

Show section breaks When you've added section breaks in your document, the easiest way to see where they begin and end is to first display all formatting marks.

Add manual page breaks or adjust page breaks automatically using options settings.

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.

When you delete a section break, Word combines the text before and after the break into one section. The new combined section uses the formatting from the section that followed the section break.

You can insert your own column breaks for more control over the document format. Place your cursor where you want the column to break. Click Layout > Breaks. A menu with options will appear. Click …