Header or Footer Changes When Section Break Deleted

• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, if you delete a section break that separates two sections that have different headers or footers, the headers or footers from the later section will be used in the earlier section.

MORE INFORMATION

Section formatting (which included headers and footers) is stored in the section break that follows the text of that section (just as a paragraph mark holds the formatting for the text of the paragraph that it follows). When a section break is deleted, the two sections that it separates are joined and the formatting of the second section is applied to the first section.

When you delete a section break, ALL the formatting from the the later section overrides the formatting of the earlier section. For example, if a section break is removed from a document that contains two sections, with the first having two-column formatting and the second having three-column formatting, the entire document will take on three-column formatting.