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Simply cannot delete a section break. It is impossible. Cannot be done. Please prove me wrong.
Someone at Microsoft want to tell me why the f*** something so simple is such a huge problem for so many people? I tried every single suggestion in this thread (and others) to absolutely no avail. Word is around 30 years old. how the HELL has this not been fixed?
So if anyone is NOT as incompetent as everyone at Microsoft and has an ACTUAL fix let me know!
I'm with you. Everytime I create a new doc. I go through this madness for hours until I finally figure it out. Then months later I can't remember how I did it and back to Google.
One thing I found is that you cannot put your cursor in front of the section break when you have Footer/Header on. You have to close them first and then you can access the line with the section break, etc.
I had the problem for a while in MS Word for Mac, but deep diving into other people chatting about it, I found a solution that worked for me. I put my cursor in front of the section break and typed a character next to it. It then allowed me to select that character along with the section break and delete both.
I had the same problem and that worked for me. Thanks! You saved my day (hours of trying to figure it out)
One of those /facepalm solutions.
Thank you so much!!! I've been fighting the weird formatting on a resume template and was left with a extra blank page due to a section break at the end of the first page. This little hack finally got rid of the stupid thing.This worked for me - thanks authorsnotes!
I would suggest asking a new question in the Answers forum with specific information about your problem. Word Questions
These are user-to-user support forums and no one at Microsoft who can change anything sees what is posted here. For that, use their feedback mechanisms.
