Remove Section Breaks
Or press ctrl or ctrl shift 8.
Remove section breaks. The new combined section will use the formatting from the section that followed the section break. To access the show hide command press ctrl shift 8. 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.
In word for mac go to the home tab and select show all nonprinting characters. See reference 2 if you delete all section breaks with find and replace your whole document takes on the formatting of the final section. 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.
For example if you delete a section break the text before the break acquires all the formatting of the section that follows the break. To delete a section break click the symbol and press delete. The following steps show how to delete a section break with the delete key.
A quick way to find section breaks is to show these breaks in the document. 1 on the view tab select draft in the document views group. Show section breaks.
This method works best in draft view with the show hide command working to display the section breaks. Doing so has repercussions however word will apply the next section s formatting to the section preceding the section break. Section breaks are used to control page layout page numbering column layout etc.
Then click special and choose section. First of all press ctrl h to open find and replace box in word. One click to remove all page column section breaks from selection or whole document in word.