# What's the keystroke to insert page break in AppleWorks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 28, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642 "2005-04-28T23:56:34Z")
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### Author:  [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642/1 "2005-04-28T23:56:34Z")
I’m a Mac newbie. Although I absolutely love my iMac G5, and most things are very intuitive, there’s one thing I can’t easily figure out.
What keystroke should be pressed to insert a page break in AppleWorks? It’s AppleWorks 6, if that makes a difference.
Next to the menu selection, there is a little icon that is supposed to clearly demonstrate what the keystroke is. It looks like an up-arrow (which is probably shift), and then a caret with a hat on it (no clue what that means)
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### Author:  [@JasonFin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JasonFin)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642/2 "2005-04-29T02:25:31Z")
Shift-enter for a page break, option-enter for a section break, or simply enter for a column break. Unless you have multiple columns or sections on one page, they should all be functionally the same.
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### Author:  [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642/3 "2005-04-29T02:53:16Z")
Ah, cool…it works!
Apparently ‘return’ and ‘enter’ (on the numeric keypad) are different, because shift-enter works, but shift-return does not. Never would have guessed.
Thank you!!
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642/4 "2005-04-29T07:20:12Z")
The way I remember the “option” glyph (I think you described it as “the carat with a hat on it”) is to imagine a switch on a rail line – the stub on the upper-left side has the _option_ of connecting to either the stub on the upper-right or the lower-right.
Drove me nuts trying to remember that symbol until I learned that trick…
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### Author:  [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-keystroke-to-insert-page-break-in-appleworks/301642/5 "2005-05-02T20:28:11Z")
That’s a great way to remember the option glyph…I hadn’t thought of that.
The “caret with a hat on it” glyph I was referring to, though, is different…it turned out to be the enter key. [Here](http://www.techfile.com/SiouxChief/EnterKey.tiff) is a screen grab showing the glyph in question, appearing for all three of these menu shortcuts in Appleworks.
I haven’t seen this symbol outside of AppleWorks…must not be very commonly used.