Check the " Keep Lines Together" to ensure that no paragraph breaks across multiple pages - if it were about to, Word would place it at the beginning of the next page.If checked, the " Keep with next" checkbox will ensure that the selected paragraph will always show on the same page as the one following it.Check the " Widow/Orphan control" checkbox to force Word to include at least two lines of each paragraph on a page otherwise, Word will show the paragraph on the next page.Then, click on the " Line and Page Breaks" tab of the Paragraph dialog that opened.Now select the " Home" tab in the Ribbon, and click on the paragraph options button:.For the sake of clarity, we'll assume that you have selected the entire document. To only change the current paragraph's settings, select it alone (if you don't, Microsoft Word will automatically apply the setting for the current paragraph, but also any other paragraph you start by pressing Enter when the cursor blinks before the first letter of that paragraph).
Word 2010 lets you to customize how paragraphs break in your document namely, by avoiding " widow paragraphs" (a single, last line of text showing at the top of a page) and " orphan paragraphs" (a single, first line of text appearing at the bottom of a page). see our " Hide / show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols" tutorial for more info and customization options. Tip: press Ctrl+Shift+8 (or Ctrl+*) to toggle the visibility of non-printing characters like page break symbols. Page Break." mark wherever you have inserted page breaks just click at the end of that line, as we've done below, and hit the Backspace key! (Or place the insertion point at the beginning of that line and press Delete - whichever you prefer.)Īnd you will now see the content of the next page appear right after the page break you just deleted. Then, click on the " Show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols" button to toggle their visibility on or off in the current document it's the button with the paragraph symbol:
The last section of this tutorial explains how to make Word 2010 automatically add page breaks.
Once you have finished typing the paragraph or other content after which you want to leave the rest of the page blank, hit Ctrl+Enter on your keyboard.
Follow these simple steps to add a manual page break in a Word 2010 document: