Continuous section break

[Rick]

My document consists of three sections with a couple of headers and
footers. It ends with a Continuous Section Break which creates a blank
page at the end I can't seem to get rid of. When I display paragraph
marks I can see (in Normal View) one paragraph mark just below the
Section Break, but I can't delete it.

I've read the Deleting "Blank" Pages article at

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm

but it doesn't seem to have anything that explains my situation. If I
just delete that last Continuous Section Break it of course throws off
the formatting in the previous section. Any help would be much
appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For this one you need the very end of the article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

My document consists of three sections with a couple of headers and
footers. It ends with a Continuous Section Break which creates a blank
page at the end I can't seem to get rid of. When I display paragraph
marks I can see (in Normal View) one paragraph mark just below the
Section Break, but I can't delete it.

I've read the Deleting "Blank" Pages article at

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm

but it doesn't seem to have anything that explains my situation. If I
just delete that last Continuous Section Break it of course throws off
the formatting in the previous section. Any help would be much
appreciated.

Place your cursor next to the ¶ just below the last section break (the
continuous one).
File > Page Setup... > Layout Tab > "Section" part, change the dropdown list
item next to "Section start:" from "Continuous" to "Next Page".
Click OK.
You will now have a new page. You do this so that you can safely access the
header/footer for the section that used to be Continous. Sometimes, depending
on how the document headers/footers were created/setup, if they are all set
to "Link to previous", when you delete one, it deletes all of them. I do not
think you would have this problem, but just in case....
Now, go into the header for this "new" page section. Change the header so
that it is not set to "Link to Previous", but make sure that it is identical
to the previous section header. Repeat for the footer.
Now, place the cursor in the section before the new one. Go back in the Page
Setup dialog, take notes of all the margins for the page and for the
header/footer. Change the dropdown list at the bottom of the first tab
(Margins tab) to "From this point forward") and re-apply the margins settings
on this tab and the other appropriate settings on the other two tabs.
Now you can remove the last section break because the last section is
identical to the one before.