Have you ever printed what you thought was a finished document, only to find that pages didn't break where you expected? Or maybe you laboriously added page breaks by hand — and then faced fixing them all after revising the document? And perhaps you've wrestled with mysterious extra pages at the end of your document. Good page breaks don't usually happen just by luck, but you can easily take control. Watch these demos to find out how to manage page-break options and achieve the best pagination for your document.

Add and control page breaks

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Word automatically adds page breaks to your documents, but the default breaks aren't always the ones you want. Watch this demo to learn about setting pagination options and why you should limit using manual page breaks.

How to do it (text version):

• About page breaks and pagination
• Control pagination
• Insert a manual page break

Find and delete extra pages and page breaks

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How you delete a page break depends on how it got there. Did Word insert it automatically? Did you insert it manually? Did someone else associate a page break with the paragraph formatting? See how to find and delete unwanted page breaks in your documents.

How to do it (text version):

• Add or delete a page in Word
• Troubleshoot page breaks and section breaks

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