In Microsoft Word terminology, a carriage return is called a paragraph break and a shift-return or soft line break is known simply as a line break.

Learn how to insert Section Breaks in a Microsoft Word document. Break up long texts to make the composition more coherent.

Too many or too few hard returns can ruin an otherwise professional looking Microsoft Word document. Fortunately, it's easy to add and replace those hard returns using Word's Replace feature.

Before I learned about using page and section breaks in Microsoft Word, I would tap Enter continuously until my cursor had moved to the next page. While this might work in some circumstances, it ...