Create sections

Create sections

A document can contain one or more sections. You may want to add a section, for example, to use different formatting for part of the document. Each section can have its own unique page numbering, headers and footers, and background image.

Section pane of the Setup inspector, showing controls for headers, footers, and page numbering.

You can add and remove sections wherever you want in a document. If the template you’re using has predetermined sections, you can add more, or delete any of them.

To see how your document is divided into sections, click View in the toolbar, then choose Show Thumbnails. When you click a thumbnail, all thumbnails for the pages in its section are outlined in yellow.

Add a section

  1. Click where you want to add the new section.

    You can start the section before or after the page where you placed the insertion point.

  2. Click Document in the toolbar, then click Section.

  3. Choose an option from the “Create a new section” pop-up menu.

    If necessary, scroll down to see the pop-up menu.

If you want the new section to start at a specific paragraph, click at the beginning of the paragraph, then choose Insert > Section Break (from the Insert menu at the top of your computer screen).

Delete a section

Deleting a section also deletes its contents. If you want to remove a section but not its contents, copy and paste the contents into another section first.

  • Click View in the toolbar, then choose Show Page Thumbnails.

  • Select the section, then press Delete.

Duplicate a section

  1. Click View in the toolbar, then choose Show Page Thumbnails.

  2. Select the section, then choose Edit > Duplicate Selection (from the Edit menu at the top of your computer screen).

    The new section is added below the original.