Removing section breaks in word document?

Few things are more annoying than having a gap in a paragraph in a word document that just doesn’t seem to want to disappear no matter what. And if you have a section break in your document you’ll have to spend more time editing and trying to figure out how to remove it than you did writing it in the first place.

Fortunately, removing section breaks is easy and does not require extra software or complicated settings.

Removing paragraph breaks in word ?

If you have a block of text that splits your content into two or more paragraphs you need to fix it. If you have a few section breaks showing in your document, click the section break icon in the control bar to see a list of options. You can either remove the entire section break or just the break itself.

Removing page breaks in Word document?

You can remove page breaks from a range of objects in a document. Page breaks are protected by default, so you can only remove them if the document is open as read-only. To do so, select the section break you want to remove and press Delete on your keyboard. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Delete to remove the page break from all of the section breaks on the page.

Removing page breaks in word

If you are looking to remove the page breaks while maintaining the look of the document, then you can use the Remove Page Breaks option in the menu while editing the document. You can choose to remove the page breaks before printing or after printing. In addition, you can also choose to remove page breaks while maintaining the section breaks.

How to remove page breaks in word document?

If you find that you have section breaks in your word document, you can either click Page Layout, click Advanced and click Remove page break at section break, or press Ctrl+Shift+Z.