Breaks in Microsoft Word: Page, Section, Column break with examples

hello i'm chris menard i have a great word video for you today if you want to be a word power user i'm going to show you five items you should know and i'm gonna make this really easy for you so you can follow along with me really easy to start microsoft word from scratch there is no file to download i'm going to discuss the status bar i'm going to discuss page breaks section break next page section break continuous and finally column break this video could get just a little lengthy not too long but i will put bookmarks or chapters down below and let's go ahead and dive in [Music] so we've got word going we got a blank document i'm gonna click on page one my status bar is at the very bottom notice my zoom is in the bottom right corner and in the bottom left corner is page one i want you to turn on the word section it is not turned on by default so just right click on your status bar there's all your customized status bar options if you notice the second from the top says section i'm going to click it click back in your document look in the bottom left corner and i hope it says section 1 next to the word page and it does every word document has at least one section i'm gonna keep this simple i'm gonna type my first name press enter i'm gonna do an equal symbol r a n open and close parenth no spaces press enter that'll put random text on your screen so i want to make a page break i see people do this all the time and it drives me crazy enter enter enter enter until they get to that next page i hit backspace by the way don't do that make a page break correctly two methods to make a page break the keyboard method the mouse method i'm gonna do the keyboard first it's one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts control enter look in the bottom left i still have section one but now i have page two of two i'm going to do an undo control z if you are a mouse person by default you'll be on the home tab go to the layout tab the very first group is called page setup that is a group in there is the word breaks and i'm covering page column section break next page section break continuous you need to master these there is page break exactly the same as control enter click it once and now we are on page two i'm gonna just type in my last name and press enter i could keep on typing on this page so when would you use a section break next page here is a great example i've got two pages they're both portrait i need the third page in my document to go landscape a page break is not any good to you so let's go to breaks section break next page before i click this notice i got section one on the bottom left i'm about to have section two and i do the page it looks just like a page break i'm actually gonna type in page three here to keep up with this and it is portrait which is what page one and two are but because i did a section break next page instead of a page break i can come under page setup orientation and i can make this section landscape there it is i am going to zoom out in the bottom right just to show you where we're at page one's portrait page two is portrait page three is landscape how many sections do i have two i got three pages but two sections these first two pages are section one this is section two so let's do another page break and then another section break i'm gonna zoom back in i need page four to also look like page three which is section two so that's just a page break control enter so this is still landscape by the way i want to go back to portrait so one more breaks section break next page you'll get section three i believe we got page five i hope i'm not looking orientation portrait so do the section break next page and then do change the orientation if you need to and this is page 5 excellent just real quick i'm going to just zoom this out real fast let me pull this out there you go back in i'm gonna stay here how about another page break and watch this page six still in section three i need to get some text on our screen we did equals rand open and close to start this video session but i need multiple paragraphs i'm making this up i want 15 paragraphs with seven sentences in each one that is it right there if you wanted nine paragraphs with four sentences each one it would be nine comma four again no spaces press enter and now we got some more text on our screen i'm going to just scroll up see where we're at perfect okay i'm going to zoom out just a tad so i can show you this this is major microsoft word you can either do i'm gonna do this two ways i want this paragraph right here that i'm just selecting that is that is also one column but from right here where i clicked that is your insertion point if you want to call it the cursor i will take that from right there to the end of the document i want to see two columns two columns side by side so this is not a section break next page this is going to be a section break continuous and look what it says here inserts the section break and starts the new section on the same page because that first paragraph needs to be one column the rest needs to be two when i click this so before i click it notice i've got section three in the bottom because it looks like nothing happens when you click this watch this but it gave me section four so now i can make everything else two columns three columns whatever i want to do two columns so everything else right here down is section four and it's two columns pretty cool so that is when you use section break continuous now there's one more i haven't done column break so here's when you do a column break i'm scrolling down here and i'm gonna do it right here on this page right here i'm gonna zoom out just a tad i don't care what the text says i just care that you can see where i'm at there that works close enough i'm making this up i need to put a picture right there where i clicked in front of the w and win again i've already said this don't do this enter enter enter enter do not do that this is when i've got columns i've got more than one column so this is a column break breaks column break look at the little icon they're even showing you is pretty good it's a pretty good image it's showing you that it's going to take whatever's on the bottom left and move it up to the right so watch when i click perfect now i've got room to put my picture down here and what was in the bottom left moved to the bottom right right there i'm gonna do it one more time for you i'm making this up for some reason right here i want to do another column break there you go so there's some column breaks for you i need to say this i covered the five points already i highly encourage you to know how to go to the home tab and turn on show hide which is in the paragraph group because when you turn on show hide you can see all your breaks so in case this is an example in case i like okay i didn't mean to break it there by turning on show hide i can say okay i don't want to get i don't want that break so i'm going to delete a column break delete i'll do it one more time column break i don't want that one now delete my section breaks should show up here and we just see oh there's my page break that one's okay if you don't want a section break you would click on and hit delete so it's important that you know how to turn on show hide by the way that one says section break next page there's your page break sometimes you will not see the section break continuous but it's right there next to the word coordinated so show hide make sure you subscribe to my youtube channel if you have any comments or questions about this video please let me know again in the comments section have a wonderful day thank you [Music] you

Channel: Chris Menard

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Length: 10min 30sec (630 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 20 2022