How to remove all section breaks in Word?

Section breaks in Word are useful for changing the formatting within a document, such as switching between portrait and landscape orientations or altering margins.

While inserting section breaks is straightforward, removing them from a long document can be more challenging. If you're looking to clean up your document by eliminating all section breaks, this tutorial will provide you with the tips and techniques needed to efficiently remove section breaks in Word.

• Remove one section break manually
• Remove all section breaks with Find and Replace feature
• Remove all sections breaks with VBA
• One click to remove all section breaks with Kutools for Word

Remove one section break manually in Word

This method will help you display all paragraph marks and hidden formatting symbols in a Word document, making it easy to manually delete the specified section break. Follow these steps:

1. Click Home > (Show/Hide Editing Marks) to display all paragraph marks and hidden formatting symbols in the document.

   

2. Place the cursor just before the section break you want to remove, then press the Delete key to remove it.

   

3. To remove additional section breaks, simply repeat Step 2.

Remove all section breaks with Find and Replace feature in Word

You can also remove all section breaks from the current Word document with the Find and Replace feature in Word. Please do as follows:

1. Click Home > Replace (or press Ctrl + H keys simultaneously) to open the Find and Replace dialog box.

   

2. In the Find and Replace dialog box:
   1. Type ^b in the Find what box.
   2. Leave the Replace with box empty.
   3. Click the Replace All button.

      

3. A Microsoft Word dialog box pops out, showing how many section breaks were deleted. Click the OK button to close it.

   

4. Close the Find and Replace dialog box.

So far, all section breaks have been removed from the current document.

Remove all section breaks using VBA

Apart from above Find and Replace feature, you can also quickly remove all section breaks from current document with VBA in Word. Please do as follows:

1. Press Alt + F11 keys together to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and then paste the following VBA codes in the new module window.

VBA: remove all section breaks in Word

Sub DeleSectionBreaks()
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^b"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchByte = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchFuzzy = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

3. Then click Run button or press F5 key to run the code. And then the section breaks will be removed in bulk at once.

Remove all section breaks with Kutools for Word

If you have Kutools for Word installed, you can quickly remove all section breaks from current document in bulk with only one click by its Remove Section Breaks feature. Please do as follows:

Click Kutools > Breaks > Remove Section Breaks. See screenshot:

And then a dialog box comes out to ask for your reconfirming, please click the Yes button to go ahead.

Now all section breaks are deleted from current document in bulk immediately.

Note: This Remove Section Breaks feature also supports to delete all section breaks from selection: (1) select the part where you will remove section breaks, and (2) click Kutools > Breaks > Remove Section Breaks.

Demo: How to remove section breaks in Word?

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