How to turn off page breaks in Google Docs

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How do I turn off page breaks in Google Docs so I just have a single continuous scrolling document   I don t think this method applies anymore   I never want to print out my Google Docs  The page breaks are distracting and mess up my formatting   For example  when I have footnotes inside a table that crosses a page boundary  the footnotes break up the table

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install stylebot extension from webstore https   chrome google com webstore detail stylebot oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha go to G-document  set appropriate minimal view mode click stylebot icon  css  in toolbar of Chrome click  Open Stylebot  on very first line of new window  which is reading  select an element   insert text  kix-page-compact  before set border-style to none   Other than that open the  View  menu at the top of the screen and un-check  Print Layout   Page breaks will now only be shown as a dashed line

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A long-term solution  userscript    You can use a userscript like Tampermonkey  if you are using Chrome or Edge-Chromium  here is the extension    Then create a script and paste this in it        UserScript       name         Google docs     include      https    docs google   document       grant    GM addStyle       UserScript    GM addStyle          kix-page-compact  before           border-top  none               A temporary fix  developer console     You can use the developper console  In Chrome   1  open your document on google docs  2  click in the url field and press ctrl shift I  or right click just above help and select  view page source     Then modify the css  cf the steps on the printscreen below     1  once the console is loaded press ctrl F and paste this   kix-page kix-page-compact  2  click on the div just below the one that is highlighted in yellow  3  in the right part  paste this in the filter box    kix-page-compact  before  4  click on 1px dotted  aaa next to border-top and replace it by none

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The only way to remove the dotted line  to my knowledge  is with css hacking using plugin   Install the User CSS  or User JS  amp  CSS  plugin  which allows adding CSS rules per site   Once on Google Docs  click the plugins icon  toggle the OFF to ON button  and add the following css code       kix-page-compact  before      border-top  none      Should work like a charm

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If You want to REMOVE page break from document     use Edit   Find-Replace  f with regex    If You want to TURN OFF  as You asked      uncheck  Print Layout  from the  View  menu  but dotted lines will remain indicating page breaks

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I also rarely want to print my google docs  and the breaks annoyed me as well   I installed the Page Sizer add-on from the add-ons menu within google docs  and made the page really long   The page settings work globally  So your collaborators will also enjoy a page page-break-free experience in google docs  unlike the style-bot solution

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This answer is a summary of comments  but it really deserves its own answer   The accepted answer  by  BjarkeCK  works  but as written  there is a maximum allowable page height of about 120 inches     roughly the height of 11 normal sized pages  So this is not a perfect solution   However  there is a hack  You have to edit the source code of your local browser which renders the Page-Sizer settings window and either increase or delete the max attribute for the page height input  As shown in the following screen shot   Page-Sizer Add-on    To access the source code you need to edit  position your cursor inside the custom height field  right-click  then choose inspect element   Note that you also have to delete all the page breaks in your original document otherwise no data will render after the first one

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One option is to just double click the page break line and Google will automatically removed them   For reference  https   www youtube com watch v 5Qq3KxGHm3g

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Turn off  Print Layout  from the  View  menu

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Just double click on the break and it will collaspe  However  it will still display the line where it will break but it s better than downloading add-ons etc

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The solution I came up with was to use the publishing feature   File  gt  Publish to the web      Then in the URL you can just replace the     edit path with     pub  This solves the problem described in the question of breaking up a table with footnotes

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