Microsoft Word – How to remove last section break

To add a section break to document you simply need to go to Page Layout tab in Microsoft Word and under Page Setup choose Breaks and proper Section Break you would like you insert.

After inserting new section break you can then configure your pages to have different styles and options per each section.

However what isn't that easy is removing the last section in the document. Fortunately there is workaround you can use it to get rid of it. If you want to get rid of it, you first have to make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one. To do this:

1. Go to the very end of the document, and go into the final section‘s header. If it's a continuous section break, you will first need to temporarily create a page break at the end of the document, so that you don't go into the previous section's Header.
2. Make sure that both the Header and Footer are set to “Same as Previous”. If they aren't, use the Header/Footer toolbar to set it to this. Then return to the main document.
3. Go to the penultimate section, select File / Print and then choose  Page Setup at the bottom of the print properties

4. Make sure to go thru each tab without changing anything and close Page Setup window by pressing OK. (This makes Word “Remember” all the settings in the dialog).

5. Now go to the final section and press F4 (an equivalent of repeat last command). This applies the “remembered” settings to the final section.
6. If there are differences in the column formatting between the two sections, you'll also need to use the F4 trick with the Format + Columns dialog.
7. You can now safely delete the final section break (and the manual page break, if you inserted one).