OK, you've overridden a "protection mechanism" ‹ don't do that, or you will
get grief
A Section Break is actually an additional property container appended to a
paragraph. Sometimes, you can't see one without the other because they are
so close together.
A Word table is a "special case" of paragraph: it's a paragraph with nested
sub-paragraphs, and as such, it is easily broken if anything happens to the
outer paragraph marks.
When you delete a paragraph mark, Word attempts to copy the formatting from
the paragraph you delete to the one below it, to provide the "expected"
behaviour when the deleted paragraph goes away. All of the formatting in a
paragraph is stored in the paragraph mark, and users used to become
disoriented if the formatting of one paragraph suddenly changed because the
paragraph mark had been deleted. This current behaviour can also be
confusing, but less often
So when you tried to delete that section break, Word prevented it because
the paragraph mark that contained it was immediately adjacent to a table.
Word knew that allowing that paragraph mark to be deleted would potentially
have broken the table. Which it did
In such a case, the trick is to create another paragraph mark between the
table and the section break to protect the table. Word will then allow you
to take out the paragraph mark that contains the section break.
Hope this helps
Rob, you're brilliant.I tried (Cmd-X) and that worked! It did something funky
to the table below it but I'll figure that one out ;-)
Thanks!
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