How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 8 - Separate Chapters with Section Break

So far we have learned through several steps on how to create your thesis or similar structured documents with Word 2007 or 2010. In the last steps (Step 7 - How to give number to your chapters and sub-chapters) we have applied multilevel list numbering to chapter and sub chapter headings. In that step we have produced Academic Document 3 that has been given a structure according to that used by many academic documents. Academic Document 3 has Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. If you want to expand further by adding more headings, for example Heading 4, 5 and soon, it is so simple to do if you apply the principles described in previous posts.

However, our Academic Document 3 is still in one single page or two, and we need to organise it into many sections appropriately so that each section is for a different chapter. The feature we are going to use here is Section Break. Section break gives you a full control over each section of your document. You can, for example, give a page footer to a particular section which differ to another.

To apply section break to each chapter, follow below steps:

1. Open your Academic Document 3
2. Bring your cursor to position just before the name for Chapter 1 (that is in the case of Academic Document, it is between Chapter 1 and Introduction). Please make sure to put your cursor correctly, otherwise you may cut the chapter name).
3. Under Page Layout menu, click Breaks and then Next Page
4. Repeat these steps for the other chapters
5. Save your Academic Document 3 into Academic Document 4.

By now, each chapter has been separated with a section break. You can see the section break mark by activating the paragraph mark (under Home menu).

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