Section Break troubles

P

Pete DeKalb

I deleted 2 pages of a 4-page document and I now have a section break at the
end of the document which causes there to be a blank 3rd page. When I remove
the section break (to get rid of the blank 3rd page) it completely screws up
the formatting of the entire document. Help!
 
M

Margaret Aldis

As you've found, you can't simply remove the section break because section
breaks store all the page layout information for the section *above* the
break. For a full explanation and instructions for how to get rid of a
section break at the end of the document see here:

http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

In your document, if page 2 is not completely full, you might be able to get
away with just changing the last section to be continuous start - put your
cursor at the end of the document and use File > Page setup > Layout to
change the section start.
 
R

Richard Neville

There are a couple of things that may work. Turn on Show Paragraphs, and
look for a paragraph mark on page 3; delete it if you find it and this
should make to section break superfluous.

If this fails, select all the text down to but NOT INCLUDING the section
break; copy and paste it to a new document.
 
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