Remove A Section Break

Each section break controls the layout and formatting of the section previous to the break.

Remove a section break. If you want the section to use the formatting headers or footers from before the section break use link to previous instead of removing the section break. Press ctrl z to undo the deletion. Place your cursor at the end of your document just after your final section break.

When you delete a section break word combines the text before and after the break into one section. See reference 2 if you delete all section breaks with find and replace your whole document takes on the formatting of the final section. Display the insert tab of your ribbon.

In the header footer group click the header tool and click edit header your header will be displayed with the insertion point in it. When you delete a break between two sections word uses the formatting from the latter section for the new combined section. For example if you delete a section break the text before the break acquires all the formatting of the section that follows the break.

Then click special and choose section. Doing so has repercussions however word will apply the next section s formatting to the section preceding the section break. Following are 3 methods you can utilize to delete section breaks in batch.

2 remove all page column section breaks from selection or. 3 press the delete key on the keyboard. Comparing to showing the formatting symbols and delete each break manually one by one kutools for word supports a series of features to remove breaks with only one click.

In the illustration above if you delete the first section break 2 the first section is formatted as two columns. Section breaks are used to control page layout page numbering column layout etc. The new combined section will use the formatting from the section that followed the section break.