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Nov 14, 2019 Instructions in this article apply to Word for Office 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, and Word for Mac. Remove Line Breaks in Word: Show Section Breaks A quick way to find section breaks is to show these breaks in the document. Removing an unwanted section break next page in Word 2016 Mac I can't remove a next page section break in a Word doc. I hit shift right arrow to select, hit delete but nothing happens.
To add a forced page break in Microsoft Word, place your cursor whereyou want the page break, and then follow the appropriate step below:
In Word for Windows, pressCtrl-Enter.
In Word for Mac OS X, press Shift-Enter(notShift-Return).
To remove a page break you've made:
Click the margin directly to the left of the page break line tohighlight it.
Press the Del or Delete key.
Note: Microsoft office 2016 with mac os x 10.9.55. You cannot delete or remove soft page breaks,which are indicated by dotted lines. To change where soft page breaksoccur, you must change the settings for your margins.
You can find more information about editing and formatting yourdocument in Word's Help files:
To access Help in Word for Windows, press F1.
To access Help in Word for Mac OS X, from theHelp menu, select Word Help.
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In Word 2007, you can use the Delete key to delete a section break. The following steps show how to delete a section break with the Delete key.
How To Use Section Breaks In Word
1On the View tab, select Draft in the Document Views group.
This method works best in Draft view with the Show/Hide command working to display the section breaks. To access the Show/Hide command, press Ctrl+Shift+8.
2Position the insertion pointer just before the section break.
Deleting a section removes any formatting, including headers and footers that were unique to that section. If you accidentally delete a section break, you lose any special formatting applied to that section; press Ctrl+Z to undo the deletion.