<p><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/608733903f0560001881c2a5-2120/Woman typing document.jpg" border="0" alt="Woman typing document" data-mce-source="Morsa Images/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="You can remove section breaks in three easy steps in Word for Mac and Windows."></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>In <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/microsoft-word" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft Word</a>, you can insert section breaks to divide your document into sections and apply formatting to specific blocks of text. For example, you can have a section with different margin sizes, sections with different headers and footers, and more. Section breaks differ from page breaks, which move the content after a page break to the beginning of the next page.</p><p>Below, you'll find step-by-step instructions for how to remove a section break in Word on Windows and Mac Office programs. When you delete a section break, the text before and after the break combines into one section, which takes on the formatting of the latter section.</p><p>Here's how to remove section breaks from your Word document. </p><aside class="breakout-box headline-regular"><h2>How to remove a section break in Word for Windows</h2><ol><li>Choose the Home tab if it isn't already selected for your document. </li><li>Select Show/Hideto show the section breaks in your document.</li><li><p>Click the area just before the section break you want to remove, then hit the Delete key.</p><p><img src="https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/60835d591d0b54001913dba6-1165/Section 1 .jpg" border="0" alt="Section 1 " data-mce-source="Abbey White/Insider" data-mce-caption="Select the section break you want to remove and hit Delete."></p></li></ol></aside><aside class="breakout-box headline-regular"><h2>How to remove a section break in Word on a Mac</h2><ol><li>Click the Home tab. </li><li>Then click Show all nonprinting characters (thebutton).</li><li><p>Highlight the section break you want to remove by clicking on it, then hit the Delete key.</p><p><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/6086fa943f0560001881c0ef-2236/Delete Section Break 1.jpg" border="0" alt="Delete Section Break 1" data-mce-source="Abbey White/Insider" data-mce-caption="You may be able to highlight your section break before deleting it."></p></li></ol></aside><bi-shortcode id="related-article-module-end-of-article" class="mceNonEditable"><a data-type="6070c9fc0c26757b40643dea" data-title="How to double space in Microsoft Word on different versions of the word processor" data-url="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-double-space-in-word" data-vertical="sai" data-image="https://i.insider.com/6070cb184943790018bb1c3a">How to double space in Microsoft Word on different versions of the word processor</a><a data-type="6075dce568059d63a578874c" data-title="How to use Find and Replace in Microsoft Word to make quick edits to a document" data-url="https://www.businessinsider.com/find-and-replace-in-word" data-vertical="sai" data-image="https://i.insider.com/5fb830f432f2170011f706e6">How to use Find and Replace in Microsoft Word to make quick edits to a document</a><a data-type="607624117b8e94797877e6d5" data-title="How to insert a blank page in Word and keep your document's formatting intact" data-url="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-add-a-page-in-word" data-vertical="sai" data-image="https://i.insider.com/undefined">How to insert a blank page in Word and keep your document's formatting intact</a><a data-type="6075f9867b8e947017423ec4" data-title="How to add page numbers to a Microsoft Word document header or footer on a PC or Mac" data-url="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-add-page-numbers-in-word" data-vertical="sai" data-image="https://i.insider.com/undefined">How to add page numbers to a Microsoft Word document header or footer on a PC or Mac</a></bi-shortcode><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-remove-section-break-in-word#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p>
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