Adding a new chapter

Before you add a new chapter, insert a section break to any previous content you have written.

  1. Place your cursor before the paragraph return of the previous paragraph;
  2. Click the Layout tab;

  3. Click the Breaks button and select Next Page under Section Breaks;

    The Breaks button in Word for Windows
    The Breaks button in Word for Mac O S

    Left: the Breaks button as it appears in Word for Windows; right: as it appears in Word for the Mac.

    The Break menu in Word for Windows
    The Break menu in Word for Mac O S

    Position of the Next Page section break on Windows and Mac.

  4. Word inserts the section break. You may need to style the next paragraph as a Heading 2.

Note: If you need more than one column (i.e., for columns of statistics) you’ll also want a section break, then another when you're done with that section, to switch back to one column.