Combining Footer Sections

[williams]

I have a large document that some how got a section break in the text (previous revision is correct without additional "sections"). There is no section break in or around where this random new header/footer "section 4" starts.



Here is the section layout of the document:

Header/Footer Section 1: TOC

Header/Footer Section 2: Text

Header/Footer Section 4: Text


Here is what the sections layout should be:

Header/Footer Section 1: TOC

Header/Footer Section 2: All Text

Is there a way to combine section 4 back into section 2? I know how to "continue" the numbers into section 4, but i would prefer to have it all in one section.

[Charles Kenyon]

Copy the footer from Section 2 and paste into Section 4. Then link to previous. Do the same with Section 3.

Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013

[Guessed]

Is there a reason why you don't simply delete the section breaks between Section 2 and 4?

It is possible the section breaks were 'deleted' but still remain because they were revision tracked and you are hiding those revision-tracked deletions.

[williams]

that's my problem, there are no section breaks to delete. how would i find the "hidden" revisions?

[Charles Kenyon]

Go into Track Changes and accept all changes.

[williams]

Yeah, no changes to accept. Alright thanks anyways

[williams]

I found a suggestion to copy the whole document into notepad then back into word and that cleared all of the footers/formatting.
So the bad news is that it cleared all formatting, but but I used a template and that will make it quick to reformat.