What are page breaks for in OpenOffice?

Answer 1

To keep your document looking professional and readable. You do not want one line hanging over onto the next page.

For example, if you have a document comprised of several paragraphs, and in its present form, one line rolls over to the next page, you would click the cursor to the left of the first character of the last paragraph, then press and hold Control + press "enter" simultaneously. This will force the whole paragraph to the next page.

Also, if your document consisted of headings and paragraphs, you would not want the heading on the bottom of a page with the paragraph on the next page. You would force a page break before the heading.

Answer 2

A page break is for "cutting off' the rest of the blank page underneath what you typed. If you only type half a page and are ready to begin a new page, inserting a page break gets rid of the unused portion of the page and automatically generates a new blank full size page. It's so when you scroll though the document you don't see whole pages only half full. This saves document space. It has no effect when you print the page. Try it, you won't mess anything up, I promise. In MS Word it's Insert, Break.

Answer 3

That would be for going to the next page if your document is larger than one page.