A section break would work better than a page break for which task? separating text by topic applying different formatting to text within a document viewing a document as an outline breaking up a small amount of text into several pages

applying different formatting to text within a document

Explanation:

A section break is used to separate a documents into different sections, thereby making it possible to apply different formats to the sections such as having different headers and footers, using a single column and double column for different sections, applying different page numbers e.t.c.

A page break is used to end a page and start a new page even if the old page has not been filled with text.

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