Deleting section break word messes up formatting
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If you’ve found this article on how to combine Word documents without losing the formatting, useful, please comment or share using the buttons below. This should retain your individual formatting in each individual document that you’ve combined. Carefully delete the blank pages but leave the section breaks there. You might find you have some extra blank pages at the end of sections: turn Paragraph Marks on (see this article for how to do that) so that you can see your Section Breaks. Once you’ve done this to all your documents, combine them. Find the Breaks section and drop it down using the little arrow.I’ve covered this in more detail in this article, but here’s a summary with a screenshot from Word 2013. What should she do? How to combine Word documents and not lose the formatīefore you combine the documents into one big document, add a Section Break at the end of each document you want to combine. I had a question in a comment from someone who had used my method to combine several chapters of a textbook. But what if combining documents loses the formatting? I’ve written about how to combine Word documents in this article.