I created a section of two columns for a page. Now that I’ve finished typing in that section I can’t seem to click below it to continue in the normal document. Inserting page breaks only extends the section, not ends it. How do I escape the section back into the document and keep writing as normal?
There should be a paragraph created after the section when you inserted it. It doesn’t matter, Alt+Enter will get you out of the section to a line after it. Cheers, Al
I should have added that you need to be at the end of the text to create a line after the section. If you do it at the beginning of the section, it will create a paragraph before the section.
BTW it is a handy way to put a paragraph above a table at the beginning of document, click before any text in the first cell and then press Alt+Enter
In 2023 I’m using LibreOffice 7.4.6.2, and Alt+Enter doesn’t work for me. It was a mistake to create a new document only with sections (I should had added text before and after the earliest section).
The only solution was to create a new section and delete (remove) that. This allowed me to enter the standard mode.
I would add that copying a two-column section to a new document seems not possible (I tried that as well) - sadly, formatting is broken.
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Is this a new question or a supposed alternate solution to the initial question? If Alt+Enter does not work for you, you’re perhaps under MacOS. When complaining, always mention OS name, LO version (done) and save format.
No, this is not a new question, as you can judge by the absence of question marks in that.
Yes, it is a supposed alternate solution (you may actually read it to see that).
I always thought that LibreOffice is a cross-platform tool. I’m using Arch Linux (done. If you are from the site administration, always use suggestions like “write your OS, write your LO version”).
When complaining, I usually use bug trackers. Thank you for your concern.
Yep, but there are small differences between platforms to take into account GUI/design variations. As an example, Ctrl is used under Linux and Windows and ⌘ under MacOS. Also menu organisation is different. This is why OS name is important.
Sections can be managed with a right-click on it and Edit Section or a right-click on the name in the Navigator and Edit. Then you press Remove to eliminate it (your text is preserved).
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yes, many thanks for your suggestions. This is actually what I’ve done 
I wanted to share that solution, that’s why I wrote my answer.
2026 calling (LibreOffice Writer 25.8.4.2, Linux): Alt + Enter does not break out of a section for me.
It does break out of a table, but not a section.
Do you mean ‘end of document’? Otherwise I can’t see any useful information here. Where else would you use Alt + Enter except for the end of the section?
Try the other Alt key (AltGr+Enter will not work if it is set as a modifier key).
If that doesn’t work then try in Safe Mode. Or post a sample in which you cannot use Alt+Enter.
Please just stop.
No information in your question. I was genuinely trying to help.
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I guess that your section is in Endnotes; you cannot jump out of a Section there just like you cannot create a new page in Endnotes with Ctrl+Enter.
“Please” is just a disguise for genuinely rude words that followed.
We can perfectly live without someone who comes, writes some “doesn’t work” no-useful-data post, then “where else would you use” “addendum” implying that others should know your level from your avatar - and ended up attacking a prominent contributor; if you disappear from the site, it will not hurt it.
But the site can’t live without great volunteers who devote their time trying to help even rude questioneers.
Is this a volunteer or an AI?
Alistair is mentioned in his profile.
I didn’t work for me. I found this thread. I just reported that the solution doesn’t work for me. I didn’t ask for a lecture in the obvious.
Of course, I used Alt + Enter at the end of the section. No, the section is not in end notes. The section in question was followed by a table, but nowhere in this document does Alt + Enter break out of the end of section, which was the original poster’s problem.
These kind of weird anomalies come up in LibreOffice from time to time and it’s just sad how quickly people jump to “you’re doing it wrong!”
If this is a person, I’m sorry if I upset them.
If it’s an AI or someone posting answers through an AI (and who can really tell these days but the name is alarming), that’s just a waste of time.
- This is an Ask site. Anything here is, by default, a question from a user to other users, to help resolve some problem. “I just reported that the solution doesn’t work for me” is not something assumed here. “I didn’t ask for a lecture in the obvious” means you claim others must know what’s “obvious” for you.
- A sample (that @EarnestAl asked once) could possibly help to see the problem - and maybe that’s a bug; maybe there’s a workaround that others could find, or some detail that isn’t obvious (things like comments, tracked changes, hidden text etc. etc. can sometimes create some strange phenomena). Of course, a sample must be sanitized to not contain anything sensitive.
- People do not “jump to “you’re doing it wrong!”” - they are searching for possible fixes / advises. But someone definitely jumps to conclusions about others’ intentions, that’s true.
- You have those “ll” in your nickname. You typed those “Alt+Enter”, with “Alt” resembling that “AI”. Please accept that some recent hype could break someone’s long-established nicknames; and assumptions are destructive.
Well, I think you’re showing a whole lot of ‘bad faith’ yourself Mike. Sites like this ALSO act as repositories of information that users regularly find in searches. It’s still a fact that this does not work at the end of a section.
Continue to rant at me if you like, but I don’t think we’re likely to agree.