Select and delete the page break you inserted in step 2.Select and delete the final section break.
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Word applies to the last section the column formatting that you accepted in step 17 for the next-to-last section.
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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.