Nothing of the above does what I want to achieve: REMOVE THE NASTY SECTION BREAK WITHOUT changing ANYTHING else.

That's a horrible description, but hopefully it will help someone. 'Page Setup' and it looks like a bracket with an arrow pointing down and to the right (not a bracket on the keyboard, but the kind you use for construction). You have to click on the tiny button on the lower right side of the section, it's to the right of the words On the Page Layout tab in the ribbon, there's a section called Page Setup. This worked for me once I found the Page Setup. You can then safely delete the section break as per: This will copy the formatting from the area above the section break, to the area below the section break. Now, click just after the section break and press F4. Then click onР”В®ach of the three tabs (don't change any settings) then click OK. To do so, select an area just above the section break, then click File > Page Setup (or File->Print->Page Setup in Word 2010). Last.DeleteР”Р„ctually, you CAN do what the OP is asking. FormattedText = Sctn1.Headers(oHdFt.Index).Range.FormattedText OHdFt.LinkToPrevious = Sctn1.Headers(oHdFt.Index).LinkToPrevious FormattedText = Sctn1.Footers(oHdFt.Index).Range.FormattedTextР”Вo While. OHdFt.LinkToPrevious = Sctn1.Footers(oHdFt.Index).LinkToPrevious DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter = lDiffFirstHdFt OddAndEvenPagesHeaderFooter = lOddEvenHdFt MsgBox 'Selection does not span a Section break', vbExclamation Page orientation, text columns, headers & footers) are addressed.Р”Вim sPageHght As Single, sPageWdth As SingleР”Вim sHeaderDist As Single, sFooterDist As SingleР”Вim sTMargin As Single, sBMargin As SingleР”Вim sLMargin As Single, sRMargin As SingleР”Вim sGutter As Single, sGutterPos As SingleР”Вim lPaperSize As Long, lGutterStyle As LongР”Вim lMirrorMargins As Long, lVerticalAlignment As LongР”Вim lOddEvenHdFt As Long, lDiffFirstHdFt As LongР”Вim bTwoPagesOnOne As Boolean, bBkFldPrnt As BooleanР”Вim bBkFldPrnShts As Boolean, bBkFldRevPrnt As BooleanР”Вim bOrientation As Boolean, oHdFt As HeaderFooter The following macro works the other way, across multiple (selected) Section breaks. As has been discussed, deleting a Section break causes the Section preceding the break to assume the page layout of the following Section.

Deleting section break in one drive