1. Click where you want to start a new page.
  2. Click Insert > Page Break.

View manual page breaks

If you want to see where you’ve added page breaks, on the Home tab, click Show Editing Marks.

Page breaks look like this:

Adjust automatic page breaks

To prevent automatic page breaks from falling 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.

  1. Select the paragraphs you want to apply the settings to.
  2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph.
  3. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
    Choose one or more of the following options:
    • Widow/Orphan control: places at least two lines of a paragraph at the top or bottom of a page.
    • Keep with next: prevents breaks between paragraphs you want to stay together.
    • Keep lines together: prevents page breaks in the middle of paragraphs.
    • Page break before: adds a page break before a specific paragraph.
Set pagination and add line and page breaks in a Pages document
You can use formatting to control how text flows on the page.
You can also prevent single lines of text from appearing on their own at the bottom or top of a page (these are known as widows and orphans).

Force text to the next line or page

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  1. Click where you want the break to occur.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • For a line break: Click in the toolbar, then choose Line Break. You can also choose Insert > Line Break.
    • For a page break: Click in the toolbar, then choose Page Break. You can also choose Insert > Page Break.
When you insert a line break or page break, Pages inserts a formatting character called an invisible. You can turn on invisibles in the document to see where special formatting is applied.

Prevent single lines of text from appearing at the top or bottom of a page

You can prevent the first line of a paragraph from appearing alone at the bottom of a page (called a widow line) or the last line of a paragraph from appearing alone at the top of a page (called an orphan line).
  1. Click in the paragraph where you want to prevent the single line of text from appearing.
  2. In the Format sidebar, click the More button near the top.
  3. Select the checkbox next to “Prevent widow & orphan lines.”

Set how paragraphs break between pages

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Pages can automatically adjust how paragraphs break between pages in a document. For example, you can make sure a heading and the next paragraph always appear on the same page.
  1. Select the paragraphs you want the settings to apply to.
  2. In the Format sidebar, click the More button near the top.
  3. Select any checkboxes in the Pagination & Breaks section:
    • Keep lines on same page: Keeps all lines of the paragraph on the same page.
    • Keep with next paragraph: Keeps the paragraph on the same page as the one that follows it.
    • Start paragraph on a new page: Moves the paragraph to the top of the next page.
    • Prevent widow and orphan lines: Prevents the first or last line of the paragraph from appearing alone on a page.

Remove a formatting break

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You can turn on invisibles in the document to see where special formatting is applied.
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