How To Delete Section Breaks
The following steps show how to delete a section break with the delete key.
How to delete section breaks. To access the show hide command press ctrl shift 8. When you delete a section break word combines the text before and after the break into one section. In the illustration above if you delete the first section break 2 the first section is formatted as two columns.
For example if you delete a section break the text before the break acquires all the formatting of the section that follows the break. 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. 1 remove all kinds of breaks from selection or whole documents.
See reference 2 if you delete all section breaks with find and replace your whole document takes on the formatting of the final section. Find all section breaks in the document. Each section break controls the layout and formatting of the section previous to the break.
One click to remove all page column section breaks from selection or whole document in word. The new combined section will use the formatting from the section that followed the section break. When you delete a break between two sections word uses the formatting from the latter section for the new combined section.
Then click special and choose section. Click more button to get more options. First of all press ctrl h to open find and replace box in word.
Next put cursor inside find what text box. 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. 1 on the view tab select draft in the document views group.