Section break without creating a new page?

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Section break without creating a new page?

I'm trying to do something that should be really obvious in an iWork '09 word processing document. I want to have the top half of the page one single column, and the bottom half of the page two columns. I assumed that adding a section break would allow me to do this, but a section break is also a page break it seems. Is there a way to create a section break without breaking to the next page? Or is there some other way to have different numbers of columns on the same page? I don't want to have to resort to tables or text boxes if I can avoid it.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz, iPhone 3GS, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 3, 2010 2:46 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 3, 2010 3:15 PM in response to Pete Edwards

You want a *Layout Break.*

It is in the same place you found the Section Break:

+Menu > Insert > Layout Break+

In order of hierarchy:

*Line Breaks/Soft Return* breaks text to a new line without ending the paragraph.

*Paragraph Return* ends a paragraph.

*Column Breaks* to the next column.

*Layout Breaks* the page layout.

*Page Breaks* to the next page without making a new Section.

*Section Breaks* to a new Section, effectively a chapter break.

Take time to look through your Menus, Inspector and to read the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf downloadable from under the Help menu, where there are also Videos from Apple.

Peter

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Pete Edwards Author

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Aug 3, 2010 3:38 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thank you so much, Peter!

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