How do I start a new section on the same page of the previous one?

If your document is a single page, that page is the section too. If you have multiple pages, without deliberately inserting a section break, or new section, then these pages are also part of the section.

If you simply want a new section after the current section, you can select from the Document panel : Section tab : Create a new section : After this section. You can also achieve this via Insert menu : Section.

If you are at a good stopping point on a page in an existing section, and decide that this would be a good point to start a new section, then click in the document where you want the section break, and then choose Insert menu : Section Break.

You can confirm the existence of the new section, or section break by enabling the thumbnails from the View menu. A click on a particular section is indicated by a yellow outline on a single, or multiple associated thumbnails. If View menu : Show Invisibles is enabled, you will also see a section demarcation as a solid blue line across the document content.

Unlike LibreOffice Writer where one can have multiple sections per Frame, Pages sections are mutually exclusive, and one cannot place a section within another section.

In Pages ‘09 they were called Layout Breaks and had nothing to do with Sections.

Tagging onto someone else’s post and asking the wrong question is not the shortcut to an accurate answer.

Your question in your own post should have been:

How do I create different number of columns on same page?

A. Columns are now a paragraph attribute. Select the paragraph/s and specify the number of columns for those in the sidebar.

Peter

Sections are made up of one or more pages, not the other way round.

Think of Sections like Chapters in a book.

Peter

Okay, thanks for the help. I was hoping to have multiple sections on a single page so I could have a different number of columns on the same page. It seems you could do this in the old, old version of Pages.

Thanks Peter,

My apologies for not knowing the difference. I simply assumed that the old terminology (or way of doing things) was the same for the current version of Pages. Therefore, I thought the op was trying to find the same information. Thank you for the clarification and your patience with my misunderstandings. You did help me.

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How do you start a new section on the same page?

The first thing you should do is tell us what explicit version of Pages (Pages menu : About Pages) that you are using, and on what version of OS X ( menu : About This Mac). There are two principal releases of Pages in use with different interface designs and features: Pages '09 (purple ink bottle), and Pages v5 (yellow icon with pen).

Once I have the preceding details, I can share the specific steps for the version of Pages that you are using. Neither are rocket science, but I don't want to guess.

Sections are made up of one or more pages, not the other way round.

Think of Sections like Chapters in a book.

Peter