Independent: it is possible to specify that one is the same as the previous one, or linked to the previous one

Headers and Footers of Sections are not totally

Of particular interest at the moment are Headers and Footers. Actually, deletingĪ whole Section suffers the same issues as deleting just a Break, but that isn't really relevant here. In this case, quite reasonably, the Section following it remains just as it was before. Hand, those of the Section following the Break.īefore going any further, it is worth pointing out that the behaviour is exactly the same when you delete an entire This leaves the Section before theīreak with no settings and Word, like nature, abhorring a vacuum, fills the gap with the only settings it has to – are also deleted, without so much as a ‘by your leave’. – Headers, Footers, Page Setup Details (orientation, margins, etc.), Page Borders, and Forms Protection When the Section Break is deleted all the settings effectively stored within it Section-specific settings in each of the two Sections differ, in which case Word has to make a decision about how When you delete a Section Break, you are, in effect, merging two Sections into one. This, rather long, article explains the causes, explains why some workarounds don't work and offers one that does. These effects can happen when you have an Index formatted with an explicit number ofĬolumns and you have different formatting of the body of the Document before and after the Index. Sometimes, when you update an Index Field, your Page Headers can change, or disappear sometimes your pageįormatting may change.

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