Remove Page Breaks in Word Using Show/Hide (Windows)
This is probably the simplest way to find and remove a page break in Word. Word gives you a view revealing all of the hidden layout and markup elements that are added to your document (both manual and automatically-added elements). Once you’ve revealed them, they’re easy to remove.
Using Find and Replace (Windows)
Got a document full of a bunch of page breaks and want to remove them all at once? You can use Word to find and replace page breaks just like any other element of your document.
Remove Page Breaks in Word Using Show/Hide (Mac)
The steps are basically the same in Word for Mac, but the screen layout is a little different.
Using Find and Replace (Mac)
Again, the process is the same for Mac, but the menu layouts are slightly different.
Controlling When Word Inserts Page Breaks
All of the tips so far apply to page breaks that you’ve added manually, but in some cases, Word also adds automatic page breaks. To control your settings for those, go to Home > Paragraph > Line and Page Breaks. The options here are:
Widow/Orphan Control: This keeps the last word of a sentence from getting stranded on a new page and keeps two lines of text together at all times. If you’re OK with a stranded word and no page break, uncheck this.Keep with next: Keeps at least two paragraphs together at all times.Keep lines together: This keeps paragraphs as intact units and stops Word from adding a break in the middle of a paragraph.Page break before: Adds a page break before a given paragraph to keep the whole block of text together.
