Modifying page layouts
In this topic, we will look at how to work with different types of breaks in a document and construct headers and footers. This is an area where we quite often need to troubleshoot when working with different document sections.
Inserting and modifying section breaks
Breaks in a document are extremely useful if you would like to have a different layout or formatting changes for a certain section of the document, such as a page, or pages. By formatting or layout, we include the following:
- Margins
- Paper size or orientation
- Page borders
- Vertical alignments of text
- Headers and footers
- Columns
- Page numbering
- Line numbering
- Footnote/endnote numbering
The following is an explanation of these special break types:
- Continuous: A continuous section break is inserted before and after a portion of text on the same page. Changing text into columns is an example of where a continuous break is used:
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