How to Move or Delete Page Breaks in Your Excel Documents: Guide

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This wikiHow will teach you how to manage and adjust page breaks in Excel using your computer. The mobile app does not have this functionality.

Things You Should Know

To preview your page breaks, click the "View" tab and select "Page Break Preview."
To move a page break, hover the cursor over it, then drag it to a new location.
To delete a page break, click the column to the right (or row below) the break, click "Page Layout," select "Breaks," then click "Remove Page Break."

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Moving Page Breaks

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You can adjust the page breaks with any desktop program of Excel. You cannot use a mobile phone or tablet or the web version.

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Solid lines indicate manually added page breaks. Dashed lines indicate page breaks that Excel added automatically. [2] X Research source

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To insert a page break, go to the place in the sheet you want to insert the page break, then go to the "Page Layout" tab and click "Breaks > Insert Page Break." You'll then see a thick line that indicates where the page break is.

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You can move manual or automatically added page breaks.

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You can drag-and-drop page breaks horizontally and vertically.
If this isn't working, you can check that drag-and-drop is enabled. To do that, go to File > Options. If you're using Excel 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button icon (in the top left corner of the program) > Excel Options. Go to the "Advanced" category and select Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop then click Ok. [4] X Research source

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Deleting Page Breaks

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You can delete page breaks using any desktop program of Excel. You cannot use a mobile phone or tablet or the web version. Note that you cannot delete automatic page breaks (dashed lines), but you can move and change those into manual page breaks (solid lines).

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Go to the "View" tab and click Page Break Preview. You'll see all the page breaks in blue. [5] X Research source
Solid lines indicate manually added page breaks. Dashed lines indicate page breaks that Excel added automatically. [6] X Research source

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To insert a page break, go to the place in the sheet you want to insert the page break, then go to the "Page Layout" tab and click "Breaks > Insert Page Break." You'll then see a thick line that indicates where the page break is.

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Click Breaks . This icon looks like the break between two printed pages in the "Page Setup" grouping.

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You can also drag-and-drop the page break outside the Page Break Preview view.

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When you move an automatic page break, the line will change from dashed to solid indicating that it has been adjusted from its automatic settings.

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