Hi everyone,

So I have a 400 page document with close to 467 section breaks (some must be continuous breaks I suppose).

When I double click on the header or footer I can see the breaks (I see the section numbers from 1 to 467 and I can navigate normally using next/previous section). I want to remove all of the breaks from the document.

I have tried the find and replace for ^b (and I've already gotten rid of the page breaks). The find/replace returns 0 results. I have tried running the find/replace in the main doc and also in the footnote area (in draft view). No luck.

I have tried going to Page Layout > Page Setup > Layout and set the Section Start to New Page and applied to Whole Document. Then I repeated the find and replace (main doc in print layout view and also in draft main window, footnote window). No results.

When I display the nondisplayed formatting marks, it is very strange but I do not see any breaks (continuous or next-page breaks) shown anywhere in print layout or draft view. I format documents in Word very frequently and I have never come across this.

I have tried running a macro that I found online to delete the breaks and that didn't work either. I'm really at a loss of how to get rid of these breaks. I have no choice because I have to start the footnotes at 1 in each chapter and that is based on section breaks, and all of the breaks are causing a problem here. I have kept clean copies of the document in which I have not run the macro.

Any advice you could give would be wonderful. Thank you so much in advance for any time or ideas you can give.