Pages for iOS (iPad): Add line, page, and column breaks

Add line, page, and column breaks
Add line, page, and column breaks in a Pages document

You can insert line, page, and column breaks to force a break in text.

In a word-processing document, adding a page break automatically adds a new page to the document.

Force text to the next line or page

A line break, also called a soft return, starts a new line without starting a new paragraph. A page break moves the next line of text to the top of the next page.

  1. Tap where you want the break to occur.

  2. Tap Format button in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Line Break or Page Break.

    Controls for inserting page, line, and column breaks.

    If you don’t see Page Break, your document is a page layout document and doesn’t use page breaks. In that case, open the document in Pages on your Mac, add a new page, then open the document again on your iOS device.

When you insert a line break or page break, Pages inserts a formatting character called an invisible. You see these formatting characters when you select text that includes them. For more information about invisibles, see About formatting symbols.

Force text to the top of the next column

  1. Tap where you want the previous column to end.

  2. Tap Format button in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Column Break.

    Controls for inserting page, line, and column breaks.

When you insert a column break, Pages inserts a formatting character called an invisible. You see these formatting characters when you select text that includes them. For more information about invisibles, see About formatting symbols.

Remove a formatting break

Place the insertion point at the beginning of the text following the break, then tap Delete button.

Last Modified: Feb 18, 2016
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