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Working with Text Breaks

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Paragraph break

An empty line produces a new paragraph. Most of the time, explicit paragraph breaks are not required - Confluence will be able to paginate your paragraphs properly.

Line break

Use two backslashes

(\\)

to create a line break.

What you need to type

What you will get

here is some text
\\divided
\\using line

\\breaks

here is some text
divided
using line
breaks


Horizontal ruler

Use four dashes (----) to create a horizontal ruler.

(info) Make sure that the dashes are in a separate line from the text.

What you need to type

What you will get

here is some text
----
divided
by a horizontal ruler

here is some text

divided
by a horizontal ruler |

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