Word 207, how to delete a section break

The [delete] key removes the character to its right.
The [back] or [bksp] key, usually located above the [enter] key and to the right of the [=] key, removes the character to its left.

So you need to position your cursor BEFORE the section break and press [delete].
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To clearly see what you're doing, you need to display the typographical signs by activating the ¶ icon.
You should normally delete TWO section breaks to get rid of the blank page.
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Indeed, you don't always see the section breaks clearly in page mode, which is why I often emphasize switching to Draft mode.

m@rina

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Hello,

You didn't take the easiest path...

Since it is simply about having a different header on the first page, there is no need for a section break. Just check "Different First Page" in the layout options.

When you create your template, you will start with two pages (with a simple page break and not a section break). You create the first header, then you create the second.
When you're happy with it, you delete the second page. But Word remembers the header for the following pages. So when a user creates a document from this template and automatically goes to the 2nd page, the header will come up automatically.

Regarding landscape format pages, the problem is mainly that the footer will end up on the right when there is a landscape page in a portrait document. Look here:
https://www.faqword.com/index.php/wfaq/mise-en-forme/187-sur-une-page-orientee-en-format-paysage-je-voudrais-que-le-numero-de-la-page-apparaisse-comme-si-ma-page-etait-en-format-portrait.html

Since everything that involves section breaks is a real headache for users, I opted for an Auto Insert solution associated with a small macro added to the toolbar.
By acknowledging that the layout is in the section break, all you need to do is create a landscape page with a section break. You turn it all into an auto insert linked to the template. A small macro just to insert the auto insert, with a button on the toolbar and users will be relieved!

m@rina

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Thank you for your responses... but... I have indeed displayed the formatting marks in my work, and I tried to go to the paragraph after my section break and press delete. The result? It skips the section break and starts deleting the paragraph before my section break, while leaving my section break ;o((((

Hello,

What you need to understand is that a section break contains all the formatting that precedes it, including margins, headers and footers, paper size, etc.

So, if you delete a section break, you also delete the formatting that goes with it.

So the question is: why remove these section breaks if you want to keep your formatting??? And actually, what is your problem? It is probably resolvable in another way.

Moreover, perhaps it is not necessary to have so many sections? If it is simply about repeating the current title in the header, for example, a STYLEREF field is sufficient.

m@rina
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Marina,
since you seem very experienced, I will explain the problem in detail. You might be able to give me an appropriate solution.
The purpose of the manipulation is to create a document template.
The first page is supposed to have a header that will only appear on this first page (let's call it ET1).
All the other pages will have a simpler header (let's call it ET2).
The first template I created had only one section. It was very simple for a very simple layout. The problem is that when we wanted to put a page in landscape mode and do something neat, we would insert a section break at the desired location. And there, misery, the landscape page had ET1. So not good.
The solution was to create 2 basic sections, the first section with ET1 on page 1, which meant that the text in the first section was perfect since pages 2, 3... had ET2 (don't ask me how, I haven't understood yet, but maybe you will) and a second section with ET2 by default.
We could then create landscape pages from section 2 without messing it up since ET2 appeared.
Where we had a problem was when the text we had to insert fit on one page, that is to say the first page with ET1. We had to delete the 2nd page which was useless, the one with ET2, but we never succeeded, as indeed, section breaks contain the layout that precedes them, and when we delete them we end up with the following layout, which seems to me very little...logical...well that's my opinion.
Anyway, if you are still following me, the final solution was to insert default text on the page of section 2, in this specific case our general terms and conditions of sale. So, even if our text only fits on one page, we don’t have to delete the last one, since it contains our general terms and conditions of sale.
Do you see or not?
Do you have a better solution than this one???

Thank you
Tibo

The delete key on your keyboard doesn't work.
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Hello,
Thank you very much Raymond for these details, got it ;o)))) Yay!!!

Go to the paragraph just after your section, press the "delete" key (the long arrow pointing left on your keyboard just above "enter") until you reach the previous paragraph and your section will be gone! Well, I hope so...

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And just for your information, if you place yourself after your section break and press the "backspace" key (above "enter" and to the right of "="), does it work or not?

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Hello,

As for me, it's not about deleting a section break that I want but modifying it. Indeed, I want to insert footers in my document and I notice that from page 5 we jump to page 2. By checking the section numbers I see that the first 5 pages are in section 1 and then section 3 appears. I would like everything to be in section 1 but how can I do that?

Thank you in advance

P.S. I have looked at many posts on this subject but I haven't found anything that could help me.

Hello,

If you want all your pages to be in section 1, you need to remove the section breaks...

m@rina
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Thank you, I deleted the draft sections that I hadn't noticed earlier. It's perfect.

Best regards

Oh no!
We’re not going to start all over again!
Everything is already explained in detail: Reread and do what is written.

Hello,

I am using Word 2011. No matter if I position myself before or after the section break in draft mode, trying to delete it with the "delete" or "backspace" key does nothing!

It deletes everything except my section break!

How can I do it?

Thank you in advance!