This gives the second section the same layout as the first one. Paste the clipboard before this existing section break, which you then delete by pressing the Suppr key. If this is the last section of the document go to step 43 - The section ends with a section break. 2 - Go to the end of the next section (Home tab, Modification group, Search menu, Goto, click on section, then on Next (*)). May I suggest a simpler solution ?1 - Copy the section break you want to delete: the clipboard now contains not only the break itself, but also the whole section layout.
(You can switch between the header and footer by using the Go To Footer tool and the Go To Header tool.) This ensures that the final section in the document has the same header and footer as the section just before it. Make sure the Link to Previous control is selected for both the header and footer.The header is displayed, and the insertion point is within it.
Click the Header tool in the Header & Footer group, and then click Edit Header.If the section break just before the insertion point is a Continuous section break, press Ctrl+Enter to insert a page break.
Place the insertion point at the end of the document, just after the final section break.There is a workaround you can use, however: Unfortunately, there is no intrinsic way to delete section breaks and maintain the formatting represented by that break. This may be what you want, but it can also be a pain if you want to delete the final section break in a document and you don't want the previous text to lose its section formatting. If you have worked with sections before, you already know that if you delete a section break, the text before the break then adopts the section formatting characteristics of the section after the break. Other issues of WordTips detail how you can insert section breaks and apply section formatting. Of the three, section formatting is often the most confusing formatting for people to understand. Word allows you to format your documents on three general levels: sections, paragraphs, and characters.