How do I insert a section break in a Pages document with photos and text blocks?

> I have built a document that consists of photos and text blocks

Then you're not using Sections since, as I described, Sections only exist to delineate continuous-flow text.

> I would love to not use sections, but it seems that sections exist by default.

Well.. I guess there is at least one section in the main block, if that's what you mean, but the entire document can be "one section" if that's what you want.

> Having built my pages, all with full-page photo backgrounds, there is nowhere for me to put a cursor and create a section break to divide up the document into individual pages so I can move them around or delete one. They all live, by default, in one joined section and I cannot separate them. Does that explain it better?

OK, 'full page photo backgrounds' wasn't clear from the earlier post.

How are you setting the background photo? Are you using Document -> Section -> Background -> Image Fill? or are you adding a photo to your document via Media -> Photos and Videos.

If you're adding images through the Media option, each image has an option to 'Stay on Page' or 'Move with Text', and this affects how it moves as the text changes around it.

If set to 'Stay on Page' then the image will be locked in position and text will flow above/below or around it (depending on the 'Text Wrap' setting).

If set to 'Move with Text', then it will stay with the same relative paragraph, so as that paragraph moves around the document (via edits, inserts, etc.), the image will move with it.

Does that not meet your ask? Maybe I'm still not visualizing your document.

It isn't exactly clear to me what the 'problem' is that is 'well documented', but it doesn't sound to me like you're trying to use 'section' in a different manner from the intent

Specifically, Section Breaks and Text Boxes are mutually exclusive - you can't put a section break in a text box.

As far as Pages is concerned, there are two common models - one is a 'continuous flow', where text flows continuously throughout the document from page to page (kind of like a book). The other is 'modular', where the page is built up of discrete 'chunks', where each chuck is an image, or block of text, distinct from all others.

Nominally, Section Breaks are used to break continuous flow documents into discrete 'sections', most typically for formatting reasons (for example, you may have a section of your document that you want to flow in columns vs. single page, and you could use a section break to delimit the single-vs-multiple column pages).

So it isn't clear to me why you're trying to use Section Breaks with text boxes. Maybe I'm just not understanding your document layout well enough.

My experience sounds similar: I pasted images into a document, and then tried to add page breaks. I finally did find a place to park the cursor so I could create the breaks, but all of the images jumped to the new page.

I'm not certain that happens with the Section Break insert command.

I've just started creating my new pages and then manually moving the images to the pages I want them on.

It would be handy if you could "select" the objects and then create the new page break and have the image appear on the new page.

I did create a new document and insert two images. When I selected one of them and clicked "Insert," the only option was "Section." I don't use Sections much, so I'm not sure this is helpful, but it did create a second page and maybe that is the new Section?

I hope this helps.

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