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You can't remove automatic page breaks, but you can prevent them from landing in awkward places, such as between lines of text you'd like to keep together. You can adjust the page break settings for selected paragraphs. Select the paragraphs you want to apply the settings to. On the Format menu, select Paragraph.

Click the Layout or Page Layout tab. Next, click Breaks in the Page Setup section. In the Line and Page Breaks tab, choose the settings you want to apply. Turn these all off to reduce automatic page breaks.

You can also insert a manual page break anytime you want to start a new page in your document. Put your cursor where you want one page to end and the next to begin. Go to Insert > Page Break.

If you added section breaks to your document, the easiest way to see where they begin and end is to show formatting marks. Go to Home, and select Show all nonprinting characters. Select the section break and then press Delete.

Automatic page breaks are added by Word when you move from one page to the next. Manual page breaks can be added anywhere in the document by you to break the document and advance to the next page. You can't remove automatic page breaks, but you can adjust where they occur.

Change page break settings Select Layout. In the Paragraph group, select the small arrow. In the Paragraph dialog box, select Line and Page Breaks.

Move a page break On the View menu, click Page Break Preview. Rest the pointer on the page break line until the pointer changes to a. , and then drag the page break line to a new location. Note: When you move an automatic page break, it changes to a manual page break. Manual page breaks are not adjusted automatically.