To delete the section breaks in Word, you must first display the hidden mark to find the section breaks. 1. Click the "?" button in the "Start" tab to display the edit mark; 2. Find the horizontal line marked "section breaks" in the document. Common types include "Next Page", "Continuous", "Even Pages", etc.; 3. Select the entire section break area and press the Delete key to delete, be careful not to delete only part of the content; 4. Deletion may cause changes in the page layout, such as changes in the header and footer or the format is malfunctioned, because the section breaks were originally used to control these settings; 5. If you want to retain the page effect, you can change the section breaks to "Continuous" instead of directly deleting; 6. It is recommended to check the format before and after the operation to avoid misoperation and causing layout problems.

To delete the section break in Word, the most direct way is to find it and delete it. But many people don’t know how to find it, let alone delete it. In fact, as long as you set the display hidden mark, the section break will appear.

Turn on "Show/Hide Edit Tags"

In the Word interface, section breaks are invisible unless you take the initiative to let them display. Click the "Start" tab on the toolbar to find the "?" button in the paragraph section (that is, "Show/Hide Editing Tags"). Just click to see various format symbols in the document, including section breaks.

At this time, you will see some horizontal lines in the document that say "section breaking". Common types include "next page", "continuous", "even pages", etc., which determine where the new section starts.

• If you don't see the word "section break", it means that the display function may not be turned on, or there is really no section break in the document
• Sometimes the section breaking characters are hidden at the end of the page or behind the table, so you need to scroll carefully to view it.

Select and delete section breaks

After finding the section break, use the mouse to select the entire "section break" area, and then press the Delete key on the keyboard. Be careful not to delete only part of it, otherwise it may not be deleted or errors may occur.

For example: If you insert a section break between two pages, after deleting it, the content of the original second page will be directly followed by the first page, and the format may also change.

Sometimes after deleting the section break, the page layout will change, such as the header and footer change, and the page suddenly becomes blank. This is because the section break is originally used to control these contents.

Pay attention to format changes

After deleting the section break, the document will become a whole, and the formats that were originally set for a certain section (such as margins, headers and footers) may fail, especially when you use different types of section breaks.

• If you just want to remove the section break but retain the page effect, you can consider changing the section break to "continuous" instead of directly deleting it
• Before deleting, it is best to check whether there are special formats in the content before and after to avoid misoperation and confusion in typesetting.

Basically that's it. The operation is not complicated, but it is easy to ignore details, especially when the document has been set up with multiple sections.

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