# Sections

A section is a saved lump of text you can drop into any page.

Use it for wording you type over and over: a winter notice, a line about your
warranty, the same short paragraph on four service pages. Write it once here,
then drop it in wherever you need it.

Go to **Manage**, then **Sections**.

![The Sections screen with two numbered marks: 1 on New Section, 2 on the Edit button of a card named Winter Notice.](../../../assets/screenshots/sections-list.png)

*One card is one saved section.*

**1. New Section.** Starts a new one.

**2. Edit.** Opens the section so you can change its words.

The copy icon next to **Edit** makes a second section with the same words. The
trash icon beside it deletes the section.

## Making one

1. Click **New Section**.
2. Type a **Title**. It is a name for your own use, such as `Winter Notice`.
   Nobody outside the panel sees it.
3. The **Slug** fills itself in. Leave it.
4. Type a short **Description** if you like, so you remember what it is for.
5. Click **Create**.

The section opens with an empty **Content** box. Type your words there. It
saves itself as you type, the same way an entry does. When the word **Saved**
appears at the top right, you are done.

## Using one on a page

Open the page you want it on. Then:

1. Click at the end of the last line and press **Enter** to make an empty line.
2. Type `/` on that line. A menu opens.
3. Type `section`.
4. Click **Section** in the menu.
5. A box opens listing your saved sections. Click the one you want.

The words drop straight into the page. [Pages](/content/pages/) covers the rest
of the page editor.

Then click **Publish**. Nothing reaches your website until you do. See [Saving
and publishing](/start-here/saving-and-publishing/).

## What you are really doing

:::note[Important]
Dropping a section into a page makes a **copy** of the words.

From then on the two are not linked. Change the section here next winter and
the pages you already used it on keep the old wording. You have to open each
one and fix it.

Deleting a section works the same way. The pages that used it keep their text,
and nothing on your website changes.

So a section saves you typing. It is not a way to change five pages at once.
:::