How to Do Page Break in Google Docs

Work with links, bookmarks, section breaks, or page breaks

You can use links, bookmarks, and page breaks to help people find content or move around your file in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.

Use links

You can add, update, or remove links in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.

Create a link

1. Open a doc, sheet, or slide.
2. Click where you want the link, or highlight the text that you want to link.
3. Click Insert Link.
4. Under "Text," enter the text you want to be linked.
5. Under "Link," enter a URL or email address, or search for a website.
6. Click Apply.

Tip: You can add multiple links in a single cell in a spreadsheet. To add multiple links in a cell, highlight the text you want to link. Then, at the top, click Insert link or press CTRL + k or  ⌘ + k on your keyboard.

Change or remove a link

1. Open a doc, sheet, or slide.
2. Click the link you want to remove.
3. To remove the link in Google Docs or Slides, click Remove. To update the link, click Change and choose a new link or text.
4. To remove a link in Google Sheets, right-click the cell with the link and click Unlink. To change the link, right-click the cell and click Edit link.

Get info about linked documents & websites

You can preview thumbnails and request access for documents linked in Google Docs.

1. Open a document in Google Docs.
2. In the top left, click Tools  Preferences.
3. You can either:
   • Turn on this setting: Check Show link details.
   • Turn off this setting: Uncheck Show link details.

Tip: If you don't have access to the document, you'll get the option to request access.

Use bookmarks

You can use bookmarks to link within a document to a specific section or page. Bookmarks aren't available in Google Sheets or Slides.

Create a bookmark

1. Open a Google Doc.
2. Click where you want the bookmark.
3. Click Insert Bookmark.

Tip: To remove a bookmark, click the bookmarkRemove.

Link to a bookmark

1. Open a Google Doc.
2. Select the text you want to link from.
3. Click Insert Link.
4. In the window that opens, click Bookmarks. A list will show the bookmarks in your document.
5. Click the bookmark you want to link to  Apply.

To remove the link or bookmark, click it, then click Remove.

Tip: To remove a bookmark, click the bookmarkRemove.

Add section & page breaks

If you want to break up ideas or set images apart from text in your document, you can add section or page breaks in Google Docs. Breaks are not available in Google Sheets or Slides.

1. Open a  Google Doc.
2. Select a section of your content.
3. At the top, click Insert  Break.
4. Choose a break type.
   • ​To start on a new page, click Page break.
   • To start a new section on the same page, click Section break (continuous).

Add a page break before a section of text

Tip: To have a heading stay at the top of a new page, you can select it and use Add page break before.

Show or hide section breaks

By default, section breaks are hidden when you open a document. To show lines where you've added section breaks:

1. Open your doc.
2. At the top, click View Show section breaks.

​Notes:

• To hide the section break again, click Show section breaks.
• When you set section break lines to be visible or hidden, that setting will be the same for all documents you open until you change it.

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How to Do Page Break in Google Docs

Source: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/45893?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

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