Display the Page layout tab of your Ribbon.Now place your cursor just before your final section break.Word will apply the last section of the Page Setup formatting that you accepted above for your next to last section. Place your cursor just after the final section break.In your Page Setup group, click the small icon on the right to display the dialog.Display the Page Layout tab of your Ribbon.Put your cursor just before the final section break.Click the Close Header and Footer tool.This will ensue that the final section in your document has the same header and footer as the section preceding it. You can toggle between your header and footer using the Go to Footer and Go to Header tools.
Be certain the Link to Previous control is selected for the header and footer.Your header will be displayed with the insertion point in it. In the Header & Footer group, click the Header tool and click Header.If the section break just before the insertion point is a Continuous section break, click CTRL + Enter to insert a page break.Place your cursor at the end of your document, just after your final section break.There is actually no way to delete section breaks and maintain the formatting in that section. In some instances this may be what you actually wanted but, if you delete the last section break in your document, it can really be aggravating if you do not want the section before that to lose its formatting. If you have ever worked with sections, you know that when you delete a section break, the text before the break will then adopt the formatting characteristics of the section after the break. Of the three, sections seem to be the one that throws folks for a loop when it comes to formatting. Ok, I think I have covered in past posts how you can format your documents in levels in Word (i.e., characters, paragraphs and sections.