remove a section break?

[redmennis]

How do I remove a section break from a table? And how do I keep section
breaks from breaking in without asking?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I think you're misinterpreting something. In Word, a section break *cannot*
be inside a table. If you have the cursor inside a table cell when you click
Insert > Break and choose a section break, it will split the table into two
tables and put the break between them. Unless this is what you see, I
suspect that you don't really have a section break. Press Ctrl+Shift+8 or
click the ¶ button to display nonprinting characters, and see what words
appear in the dotted line that represents the break.

If you do have a section break, you can select it (more easily when you can
see it) and delete it. Before you do that, though, you should be aware of
what will happen. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm for
explanation.

Word inserts section breaks "without asking" only in a few very restricted
situations: If you change one of the attributes that belong to a section
break (page orientation, margins, page size) and set the Apply To box to
"This point forward", then Word will insert the break at that point if
necessary. So don't do that -- insert the section break first where you want
it, and then change the attributes, setting the Apply To box to "This
section".

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Stefan Blom]

In addition to what Jay has said, note that if you insert a *continuous*
section break when the insertion point is inside a table, it may look as if
the section break is "embedded" into the table, but the table is still split
into two.

Display nonprinting marks and switch to Normal view (Draft view in Word
2007) to see the section break more easily.