section

A section is a portion of document, such as a chapter, to which you can apply formatting different from the rest of the document. For example, each section can have different margins, page numbering, headers, footers, and background images. Depending on the document, a section can include one or more pages.

• If your word-processing document has only one page, it has a single-page section. If your document has multiple pages, all the pages are part of the same section unless you specifically add more sections to your document.

  You can tell which pages are in the same section in Page Thumbnails view. Click the View button in the toolbar, choose Page Thumbnails, then click a page thumbnail in the sidebar. A highlight appears behind all the pages in the same section.

• In page layout documents, each page is automatically a section; you can’t divide the content on a page into multiple sections.