Add page breaks & move margins

You can add breaks or adjust the margins of your document. The 3 types of breaks you can add are:

  • Page break
  • Section break within a page
  • Page break before a selected paragraph
Important: These features aren't available in documents that are in pageless format. To use these features, make sure your document is in pages format.

Add section & page breaks

  1. Open a  Google Doc.
  2. Select a section of your content.
  3. At the top, click Insert and then Break.
  4. Choose a break type.
    • ​To start on a new page, click Page break.
    • To start a new section on the same page, click Section break (continuous).

Tip: You can change the margins or page numbers of different section breaks. Learn how to use document outlines & rulers. Learn how to add or remove headers, footers & page numbers.

Add a page break before a paragraph

To insert a page break before a paragraph:

  1. Select the entire paragraph or click anywhere into the paragraph.
  2. Select an option:
      • In the toolbar,  go to Line & paragraph spacing  and then Add page break before.
      • At the top, go to Format and then Line & paragraph spacing  and then Add page break before.

Tip: To have a heading stay at the top of a new page, you can select it and use Add page break before.

Show or hide section breaks

By default, section breaks are hidden when you open a document. To show lines where you’ve added section breaks:

  1. Open your doc.
  2. At the top, click View and then Show section breaks.

Notes:

  • To hide the section break again, click Show section breaks.
  • When you set section break lines to be visible or hidden, that setting will be the same for all documents you open until you change it.
Remove a page break 
  1. Open a Google Doc.
  2. Click under the page break.
  3. On your keyboard, press Backspace or Delete until the page break is removed.

Move margins

  1. Open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Select a section of your text, graphics, or images.
  3. At the top, drag the triangle to where you want the margin to be.

Tip: If you have multiple sections, click Fileand thenPage Setup. At the top, choose which sections to change. Set your margins, and click Ok.

Learn how to move header and footer margins.

 

true
Visit the Learning Center

Using Google products, like Google Docs, at work or school? Try powerful tips, tutorials, and templates. Learn to work on Office files without installing Office, create dynamic project plans and team calendars, auto-organize your inbox, and more.

Search
Clear search
Close search
Google apps
Main menu
15646662582457369289