Symptoms In Microsoft Word, when you insert a section break into a page, a page break may be inserted instead. Note This behavior occurs in Print Layout view but does not reflect an added page break in Normal view until the document is paginated with added page numbers or you switch views from Normal to Print Layout and back to Normal. Add section break to customize your document's headers and footers, format, layout, and page numbering.

Context Explanation

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. Use section breaks to change the layout or formatting in one section of ... Configure headers and footers for different sections of a Word document ...

Insight Material

To use different page numbers or formats in different sections, create Page breaks and set page number for each. Insert a manual page break anytime you want to start a new page in your document. You can't remove the page breaks that Word automatically inserts, but you can remove manual page breaks from your document.