Removing an unwanted last page

Emma,

See if this article sheds any light:

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Hi Luc

Thanks for this Ive tried to run through each process and I can now see that I have a missing header?

So I have header and footer section 1, then header and footer section 2 followed by header and footer section 4?

Hi Suzanne

They may well have done, how do I tell if

The person who created the template may have incorrectly used a section break instead of taking advantage of the Different First Page setting for headers and footers.

I can see a section break next page at the bottom of the first page before the footer

A section break continuous before the second column at the top of the second page but no other breaks and yet I have a current count of 4 sections?

Happy to send the document over to anyone that can help.

Regards

Emma

I have the same exact problem. Can someone help me? I would love to be able to figure out how to do this myself - it seems a mystery...  TIA. 

I wonder if this makes sense - it was the only way I could find to fix it...

I went to Style, Style Guides. selected Show Direct Formatting Guides. Deleted the section. Then selected Show Style Guides, and selected "Normal", and it magically removed the second section. This was not totally a logical sequence for a procedure, IMO. Certainly not intuitive - ? Well maybe slightly, since I was able to figure it out, but I am persistent. :)

The features you describe are not present in Word 2010 (the subject of this post) but apparently are in Word 2011. If you are using Word for Mac, you need to post in the Word for Mac forum.

Those guides look very helpful, by the way; I wish we did have them in Word 2010! (We do have "Keep track of formatting," which displays "formatting" as a pseudo-style in the Styles pane.)