- Select the paragraph you want to start in a new text box.
- On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Line and Paragraph Breaks tab.
- Select the Start in next text box check box.
Insert a section break that starts the text following it in the next connected text box
You can insert a section break anywhere in a text box. The section break causes the text following it to start in the next connected text box.
- Click where you want to insert the section break.
- Press CTRL+ENTER.
To remove a section break, you must delete the section break special character.
- On the Standard toolbar, click Special Characters .
- Select the section break that you want to delete.
- Press DELETE.
Disconnect text boxes from each other
- Select the first box.
- On the Connect Text Boxes toolbar, click Break Forward Link .
Note Disconnecting two connected boxes is like breaking a link in a chain. The text in the broken-off part of the chain disappears from the disconnected boxes and overflows the selected box.