:D Extend Office folks-you rock! I will be recommending your brilliant add-ins to my other techy family and friends. THEN-opened up the copy of the book (final edited copy due today, btw), ran Kutools 'remove section breaks'-and VOILA! NO MORE SECTION BREAKS! YAY! Happy, happy me. After installation, I tried Kutools on a small 5 page doc -inserting section breaks and page breaks, then removed them easily. So next, I made a new copy of the doc and downloaded Kutools for Word. Not cool to have to do all that work over again-about 10-12 hours of re-formatting. I used the VBA Macro as well (in a copy of the document, as a trial.) The only way that worked was after clearing ALL the formatting in the entire book.

Most breaks I was able to delete using your directions for Find/Replace, but STILL- seven breaks remained that were hidden. Thank you, thank you! I'm editing a book for an author (300 pages) and couldn't get rid of the 27 section breaks, even after following advice from online MS experts.