Delete a page after Section Break Next Page

[Aston]

Hello everyone,

Working closely with Word for almost a year as an editor, I've gotten used to the fact that it likes to pull pranks on you. And sometimes you have to conduct some crazy manipulations to do some simple things.

I wonder if deleting a page after a Section Break Next Page is an example of that.

I know that the page that follows is the result of the type of the Section Break, which in this case is "Next Page", so Word automatically adds a new page after it. I have to delete the Section Break Next Page first, but it controls to many formatting elements (the page has a different header and footer and page orientation), so deleting it results in losing all that formatting.

Is it possible to delete the page after Section Break Next Page painlessly?

I attached an example file just in case. (I use Word 2007)

Thank you very much for your help.