Enjoy, Tony Actually, you CAN do what the OP is asking. To do so, select an area just above the section break, then click File > Page Setup (or File->Print->Page Setup in Word 2010). Then click on each of the three tabs (don't change any settings) then click OK. Now, click just after the section break and press F4. This will copy the formatting from the area above the section break, to the area below the section break.

You can then safely delete the section break as per: HTH. As has been discussed, deleting a Section break causes the Section preceding the break to assume the page layout of the following Section. The following macro works the other way, across multiple (selected) Section breaks. All common page layout issues (margins, page orientation, text columns, headers & footers) are addressed. If you're referring to the approach suggested by markey165 on November 30, 2011, do be aware that it does not work for the original poster's requirements, which included preserving header & footer content from the preceding Section - which may or may not be linked to the Section before that. All that approach does is to replicate the basic page layout.

The macro I posted on November 06, 2013 both replicates the page layout and preserves the header & footer content from the preceding Section, plus it allows you to merge more than one Section at a time. Cheers Paul Edstein [MS MVP - Word].

Before deleting the annex & it's section breaks, put the cursor in the annex header & footer (View/Header & Footer). Then click the button on the header/footer toolbar that says 'same as previous'. Word will ask you if you want to delete this header/footer & connect to the previous one. Hide on first page of section: Hide the header or footer on the first page. How to get dial in info for skype for business on mac. If the document has more than one section, it applies only to the first page of this section. Match previous section: Use the same headers and footers from one section to the next. Deselect this checkbox if you want to use different headers and footers for this section.