1. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Microsoft Office
Word 2010
Lesson 5: Formatting Documents
Courseware #: 3240

2. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Lesson 5 Objectives
•insert page breaks
•insert section breaks
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3. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Page Breaks
• The place where one page ends and another begins
is a page break. Word automatically inserts page
breaks or you can insert one manually.
• A manual page break would
prevent an automatic page
break from separating a
heading from the text that
follows, or you might want to
start a new section of a
document on a new page
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4. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Page Breaks
• When inserting manual page breaks avoid creating
widows and orphans.
– An orphan is when the
last line of a paragraph
appears at the top of a
page.
– A widow is when the
first line of a paragraph
appears at the bottom
of a page
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5. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Viewing Page Breaks
• When Word calculates that enough text fills the page, a
soft page break is inserted.
– In Draft view, when non-printing characters display,
the soft page break appears as:
– When a manual page break is inserted it appears at
the indicated location as:
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6. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Inserting Page Breaks
• To enter a manual or hard page break:
– On Insert tab, in Pages group, click Page
Break, or
– press + or
– on Page Layout tab, in Page Setup
group, click Breaks and click Page
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7. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Deleting Page Breaks
•To remove code if cursor is:
– At beginning of next page, press Backspace
Press
Backspace
– At end of paragraph where page break code
is, press Delete Press
Delete
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8. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Learn the Skill (pp. 95-96)
•In this exercise, you will practice how to
add & remove page breaks
•You will need the Staff Retreat
Presentation Notes document to complete
the practice. Save the document as Staff
Retreat in your Word Lesson 5 folder
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9. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Document Sections
 You can divide a document into two or more
sections.
 A section is a part of a document where you can
create a different layout from the rest of the
document.
 You can have different headers and footers, page
numbers, margins, orientation, and other
formatting features in different sections.
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Word 2010 Core Skills
Working with Section Breaks
• Separates page formatting
changes in document
– Ex. Word will automatically insert a
section break between envelopes when
creating a mail merge
• To insert section break, on Page
Layout tab, in Page Setup
group, click Breaks:
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11. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Types of Section Breaks
Next Page Starts new section on
next page.
Continuous Starts new section on
same page.
Even Page Starts new section on
next even page.
Odd Page Starts new section on
next odd page.
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12. Microsoft®
Word 2010 Core Skills
Learn the Skill (pp. 96-97)
•In this exercise, you will insert a front page
& insert a section break to change the
page orientation in the Staff Retreat
Presentation Notes document
•You will need the Staff Retreat document to
complete the practice.
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