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Quickly remove all column breaks from a Word document

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2025-03-21

Is there a way to remove all of column breaks in Word at once without removing them one by one? The common method is to show hidden format symbols and delete column break symbols one by one in draft view. Work may be tough for a long document. The Kutools for Word's Remove All Column Breaks in Selected Range utility will help you delete all column breaks in the whole document or selections immediately.

Remove all column breaks from whole document

Remove all column breaks from a part of document

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Click Kutools > Breaks > Remove All Column Breaks in Selected Range

a screenshot showing how to enable the remove all column breaks feature

Remove all column breaks from whole document

Supposing you want to remove all column breaks from the whole document, you can do as follow.

Open the dicument from which you want to remove all column breaks, and then apply this utility by selecting Kutools > Breaks > Remove All Column Breaks in Selected Range.

2. A Kutools for Word dialog box then pops up for confirmation, click Yes to continue the operation.

a screenshot of the confirmation dialog box

Then all column breaks in the whole document are removed.

a screenshot showing the breaks
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a screenshot showing only the column breaks are deleted

Remove all column breaks from a part of document

If you just want to remove all column breaks from a part of document, please select a part of the document first, and then applying the utility by clicking Kutools > Breaks > Remove All Column Breaks in Selected Range.

Then all column breaks in the selected range are removed.

a screenshot showing the selected range
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a screenshot showing all column breaks are removed from the selection

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