Inserting Proper Page Breaks

Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

Don’t kid yourself, we have all done it! Holding down the “Return” key to create a new page in a Word document. This may cause a problem for users of assistive technologies.

Assistive technologies, such as screen readers, pick up every instance of these repeated, hard returns. A user of an assistive technology that cannot see the page may interpret this silence or blank information as the end of the document.

Instead, consider using one of the following options:

Insert a manual page break

  1. Click where you want to start a new page.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Pages group, click Page Break
Screenshot of the Page Break option in Microsoft Word 2010

Insert a manual page break using shortcut keys

  1. Click where you want to start a new page.
  2. Hold the Ctrl + Return keys.

Best practice is to try and stay away from repeated characters used for presentation purposes.


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