Many users of Word are not aware of a very simple, yet very effective, formatting tool called a page break. Page breaks do exactly as their name implies – inserts a break between pages. Too often I see people holding down the return button on their keyboard to fill a page with blank lines so that it splits across to a new page. This is possibly the absolute worst thing you can do in a document, since if you add more text to that page those blank lines will be pushed down onto the next page, creating whitespace at the top. It’s also a horribly inefficient way of getting a new page. To insert a page break in Word, simply put the cursor where the break should be inserted and press the CTRL + ENTER key combination. If you would like to see the breaks in the document, turn on show formatting in Word by either clicking the formatting ¶ button in the Word toolbar or pressing the CTRL + * key combination (as the * is above the 8 on the keyboard you may need to instead use the CTRL + SHIFT + 8 key combination). Pressing this key combination again will toggle formatting symbols off.