Page Breaks
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Understand how to add page breaks to your document
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As the document gets longer, it can become harder to navigate, so we should take steps to improve the layout. And one way you can do this is with the use of page breaks. Now, if you look at our documents we've been working on so far, you'll see we've got our table of contents. Then it moves straight into the actual document content. Now, we don't really want them. Ideally, the table of contents would be on its own page and the other document content would be on the subsequent page. So what we're going to do is click to the left of where it says Introduction to Word and I'm gonna insert a page break. There's various ways of doing this. I can use the insert menu, so insert page break, or I can go through layout, select the breaks option, and select page breaks from in here. And there's also some more complicated options down below as well, which we're not going to worry about too much today. But the best way of actually inserting a page break is to just use control and enter. So control enter. If I go back up the screen now, back to the table of contents, you can see where the page break has been placed. Now that is a non-printable character, so if I go and switch those off, you can see I've just got the table of contents now. And then it moves straight on to the introduction on the next page. I'll just turn that back on to help me insert some more. So looking down the document to see if we need any more. I think one here would be good, just so that the paragraph menu has the diagram and the text altogether, it'll look a bit tidier. Oh, Introduction to Styles is sitting on its own. There is a header. Let's move that onto the next page as well. There we go. And any others? No, that's fine. But that's great. What we've managed to do is really tidy up the look of our document now. So it just seems to flow better. There's a bit more white space and things feel a little bit less cluttered. Obviously, now then, what we need to do is update our table of contents. Okay, so if you remember from an earlier video, we just click on the table of contents and select update table. And this time I'm going to update the entire table. What we should see is a lot of these numbers along the right-hand side will get bigger now 'cause we've introduced some more spaces. So there we go. Everything now is starting at least on page one as opposed to page zero.