Copy section formatting to the last part of the document?

D

Dan Williams

If I have multiple sections, each with its own formatting (headers,
margins, etc.), and I want to delete the last section (that is, all the
stuff after the last Section Break), I'm left with a Section Break at
the end of the document, and this is a pain because it always prints a
blank page at the end.

I can't just delete the Section Break, because that takes the
formatting away from the new "last section". What I need is some way
of copying the formatting stuff (headers, margins, etc.) from the new
"last section" and "paste" them into the after-last-Section-Break part
(that is, into "the document as a whole")...so I can delete the Section
Break.

Is there any all-at-once way to do this?

Currently, I put the cursor after the last Section Break and set all
that stuff manually...or else I just live with the blank page at the
end.

Dan Williams
danwPlanet
 
R

Rob graham

Dan Williams said:
If I have multiple sections, each with its own formatting (headers,
margins, etc.), and I want to delete the last section (that is, all the
stuff after the last Section Break), I'm left with a Section Break at
the end of the document, and this is a pain because it always prints a
blank page at the end.

I can't just delete the Section Break, because that takes the
formatting away from the new "last section".

Does it? I always thought that the formatting was not part of the section
break. The section breaks merely mean that you can apply different
formatting to the bits in between them and if you remove the last one it
won't affect what's gone before.

Rob Graham
 
M

Mike

Place the insertion point immediately after the section break.
From menu select File | Page setup | Layout tab.
Set section start to 'continuous'.

Regards

Mike
 
D

Dan Williams

Thanks, Mike! In all these years, I never noticed that option up there
in the corner!

(Long ago I tried doing this by inserting a "Continuous" Section Break
then deleting the "Next Page" Section Break -- but as soon as you
delete it, Word converts the Continuous back to a Next Page, so I gave
up.)

Dan
 

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