Soft and hard page breaks

Word automatically paginates a document as you enter text. When a paragraph cannot fit on a page, the text is continued on the next page. The page break that is created when text wraps and flows onto the next page is called a 'soft' page break.

At times, you may want to exert more control over pagination, which you can do by inserting a 'hard' page break, also called a 'forced' page break.

You can insert a page break by following these steps:

Notes:

Whenever possible, you should avoid entering hard page breaks in a document. Consider, instead, using Paragraph formats such as Page Break Before or Keep With Next.