1. If not showing, select Home > Show/Hide Paragraph mark to show section breaks.

    Section breaks look like this:

    Shows a section break in a document

    Note: The type of section break shown above is a Continuous section break; there are other types of section breaks.

  2. Place your cursor just before the section break and press Delete.

Warning: 

  • When you delete a section break, Word combines the text before and after the break into one section. The new combined section uses the formatting from the section that followed the section break.

  • 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.

See Also

Insert a section break

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