There are two types of page breaks in Word: breaks that Word automatically adds to mark the end of each pageand manual page breaks that you can add. You can delete manual page breaks. You can't remove automatic page breaksbut you can adjust where they occur.
Remove a manual page break
- Go to Home and select Show/Hide
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This displays page breaks while you're working on your document.
- Double-click the page break to select it and then press Delete.
Adjust automatic page breaks
You can't remove automatic page breaksbut you can prevent them from landing in awkward placessuch as between lines of text you'd like to keep together. You can adjust the page break settings for selected paragraphs.
Select the paragraphs you want to apply the settings to.
Go to Layout or Page Layout and select the Paragraph dialog box launcher
.
On the Line and Page Breaks tabchoose one or more of the following:
- Widow/Orphan control places at least two lines of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page.
- Keep with next prevents breaks between paragraphs you want to stay together.
- Keep lines together prevents page breaks in the middle of paragraphs.
- Page break before adds a page break before a specific paragraph.
See also
Insert a page break
Remove a manual page break
- Go to Home and select Show/Hide.
This displays page breaks while you're working on your document.
- Click or tap just after the paragraph mark in the page breakand then press Delete.
Adjust automatic page breaks
You can't remove automatic page breaksbut you can prevent them from landing in awkward placessuch as between lines of text you'd like to keep together. You can adjust the page break settings for selected paragraphs.
Select the paragraphs you want to apply the settings to.
On the Format menuselect Paragraph.
In the Paragraph dialog boxselect the Line and Page Breaks tab.
Choose one or more of the following options:
- Widow/Orphan control places at least two lines of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page.
- Keep with next prevents breaks between paragraphs you want to stay together.
- Keep lines together prevents page breaks in the middle of paragraphs.
- Page break before adds a page break before a specific paragraph.
See also
Add a page break
In Editing Viewa manually insert a page break in Word for the weblooks like this:
You won't see this in Reading View.
- If you're not in Editing Viewselect Edit Document > Edit in Word for the web.
- Select the page break.
- Press Backspace.
Note
You can only delete the page breaks that you've added to your documents. You can't delete the page breaks that Word adds automatically as text flows from one page to the next.
