Word allows you to format your documents on three general levels: sections, paragraphs, and characters. Of the three, section formatting is often the most confusing formatting for people to understand.
Range of a section, Word deletes the sections headers and footers, which is what I would expect. I find Words behaviour to be consistent: when you delete the. Other issues of WordTips detail how you can insert section breaks and apply section formatting. Im not aware of 'the header and footer problem that occurs when deleting section breaks'. 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. Not just the text is replaced but the formatting of text as well. The correct/current header is replaced with text that I do not know where it comes from. When you remove that section break, the headers in the document are affected. 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. The problem occurs when you delete the very last section break. Choose Header and Footer from the View menu.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. Make sure the Same As Previous control is selected for both the header and footer.Word displays the Header and Footer dialog box. Place the insertion point just after the final section break.Immediately press Enter or click on OK.Place the insertion point just before the final section break.Close the Header and Footer dialog box.This ensures that the final section in the document has the same header and footer as the section just before it. If there are no differences in column formatting between the two final sections, you can skip to step 17.Word applies to the last section the Page Setup formatting that you accepted in step 8 for the next-to-last last section. Word applies to the last section the column formatting that you accepted in step 14 for the next-to-las last section.