Tick the boxes next to the ones you want to use. Step 3: The Paragraph dialog box will appear, and under the Line and Page Breaks tab, you'll see four options for adjusting your automatic page break: Widow/Orphan Control, Keep With Next, Keep Lines Together, or Page Break Before. It looks like a tiny arrow pointing southeast.
Step 2: In the Paragraph section of the Layout tab, click on the Paragraph Settings icon. Then select the Layout tab from the Ribbon Menu at the top of the screen. Step 1: Select the paragraph or paragraphs you want to fix.
How to alter an automatic page break (for Windows) Step 3: When you see the page break appear in your document, place your cursor next to it on the right and press the Delete key. You can do this by going to the Home tab and clicking the Paragraph icon so that it’s selected. Step 2: Display the paragraph marks so that you can place your cursor correctly. Step 1: Open your document in Microsoft Word on Mac. Removing a manual page break you insert in Microsoft Word on Mac is as easy as a key press. Screenshot How to remove a manual page break (for MacOS) Double-click on the space after it and then hit the Delete key on your keyboard. Step 3: A manual page break icon should appear in your document. (It's a paragraph symbol - which looks like a backward P.) Step 2: Within the Paragraph section of the Home tab, click on the Show/Hide icon. Step 1: Open or create a Microsoft Word document. How to remove a manual page break (for Windows) That way, you can just scroll to the set of instructions you need. Our instructions are broken up in two main sections, one for each of these scenarios. The main difference between them to know is that automatic page breaks are created by Word and can't be removed, and manual page breaks are ones you added to the document, and those can be removed. And that's because there are two kinds of them: Automatic and manual. We mentioned earlier that there are two ways to deal with unwanted page breaks.