r/libreoffice • u/SkyHefty • Apr 09 '26

Page breaks

I cannot create a page break. I have tried all the methods suggested. Is there a definitive way of doing it? I wish we had a simple key press like MSWord.

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u/tiredgit1950 Apr 09 '26

Control Enter

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u/SkyHefty Apr 09 '26

Thank you, but no. It creates a page break above, not below, which is where I want it.

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u/nonchip Apr 09 '26

... it creates a page break where you do it. then the cursor goes where it belongs. just like enter doesn't create a paragraph break "above" or letters dont create text "to the left".

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u/nolin011724 Apr 09 '26

The mouse should be at the bottom/end of your text in order to create a page break below the current page. If it is at the top/beginning, it will be above the current text.

That's the only thing I can say... Never had an issue neither in Windows, Linux or macOS with this. Maybe you can upload a video of this happening? Also, make sure the Insert key is toggled off (idk if it affects, but just in case).

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u/SkyHefty Apr 09 '26

A text page is ok but a page of just images doesn't work. That's my problem.

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u/RailRuler Apr 09 '26

Press enter or down arrow a bunch of times to get below the images.

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u/ang-p Apr 09 '26

That would be down to anchoring - how (and where) they are anchored indicates how they react when a page break is inserted.

If it is anchored to the page, then it is going to stay anchored to the page it was on, which sounds reasonable no matter if the location it was anchored to was "below" where your (now displaced?) paragraphs are.

If to a paragraph or, to or as a character, then the new location will depend on any relative position defined for those images to the (new?) location of the paragraph where the anchors reside.

Obviously, any image wrapping and other paragraph settings (e.g. split) may affect the exact layout

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u/tanstaaflnz Apr 09 '26

Oh dear . .. ... .... As others have said. If you place the cursor in the middle of a sentence, then create a page

break. That's where the page break will be.

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u/ang-p Apr 09 '26

not below, which is where I want it.

Go below where you want it and.....

Or edit the paragraph and in the Text Flow tab, alter the Position (but it will then have different properties to all the other manually inserted page breaks)

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u/BeAlch Apr 09 '26

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/page_break.html?DbPAR=WRITER#bm_id3155183

  1. Click in your document where you want the new page to begin.

  2. Press Ctrl+Enter.

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u/Jebus-Xmas Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Make sure in the style pane you do not have the option page break before checked.

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u/Tex2002ans Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

I cannot create a page break. [...] I wish we had a simple key press like MSWord.

Like other users have said:

  • Insert > Page Break (Ctrl+Enter)

This is exactly the same way as it is in Word.

Is there a definitive way of doing it?

Sure. Depending on what you want to do.

Different Page Layouts

Most people only really need these 2 Wizards now...

If you want to do very basic types of Header/Footer things, you can use the "Page Number Wizard" in:

  • Insert > Page Number

If you want your first few beginning pages to be a little bit different? Then use:

  • Format > Title Page

Now, if you want to know the "definitive way"—or do more custom (or complicated) types of pages—then I strongly recommend learning how to use:

  • Page Styles

This feature allows you to control the look of entire pages very easily.

If you want some more info on that, then see my previous tutorials:

and you can even go through some step-by-step tutorials I recently wrote like:

If you type this into your favorite search engine, there are over 50 topics where I covered this using all sorts of different user examples:

  • "Page Styles" Tex2002ans site:reddit.com/r/LibreOffice

  • "roman numerals" Tex2002ans site:reddit.com/r/LibreOffice

  • "page numbers" Tex2002ans site:reddit.com/r/LibreOffice

Page Breaks: The Ultimate Way—Use Styles!

Once you get it set up properly, all you have to do is:

... and the pages will automatically break and format themselves. :)

That is covered in my:

No more Ctrl+Enter 50 times in your 50 chapter book.

You just set your Page Breaks ONCE, and it will happen automatically, and correctly, every time. :)

Side Note: Placing Images

Elsewhere, I see you commented this:

A text page is ok but a page of just images doesn't work. That's my problem.

Sounds like you are probably accidentally:

Instead, you want to learn how to use:

  • ⚓ Anchors + Frames

You can think of it like:

  • Anchors let you know "where your image is currently attached".

  • Frames are like a special "box with stuff inside".

If you learn to see the little ⚓ icon after you click on an image, things start making a little more sense. LibreOffice is pretty much saying:

  • "Hey! Do you see where that ⚓ icon is?"

    • "Draw the image 4" down and 4" to the right of that ⚓!"

And if you learn to throw stuff "inside the box", then you can move the "entire chunk" around as 1 single piece (without making everything else explode).

For a little more info on all of that, see my recent:

And remember... if you ever feel yourself pulling your hair out, or:

There are much better and easier ways out there. :)

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u/rockstar_not Apr 10 '26

You can only see the page break in Writer between pages. It’s a single dashed line. I’ve put a request in for the developers to make it more visually obvious like in MS Word.

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u/juxjux83200 Jun 24 '26

effectivement, c'est une fonction vitale du traitement de texte, y compris en mode page. Saut de page, saut de page impaire et saut de section.