This short tutorial gives a glimpse of how to delete section break in Word using Python. It has all the details to set the environment to run the sample code, a list of steps depicting the program logic, and a runnable sample code to remove a section break in Word using Python. This sample code can be executed in any of the platforms supporting .NET and Python.

Steps to Remove Section Break in Word using Python

1. Set the environment to use Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to remove section breaks
2. Load the input Word document having multiple section breaks
3. Start from the second last section in the document if available otherwise, leave the documents as it is
4. Append the contents from the second last section to the start of the last section
5. Remove the second last section
6. Repeat these steps until you reach the start of the document
7. Save the resultant Word document having no section break

These steps summarize the process to remove all section breaks in Word using Python. The process is commenced by loading the source document and accessing the contents of its second last section. These contents are appended at the start of the next section followed by removing the current section and the process is continued by moving to the start of the document section by section for repeating the same process before saving the resultant file.

Code to Delete All Section Breaks in Word using Python

This code demonstrates the process to remove section break using Python. It uses the sections.count property in the document class to control the for loop in the program where the loop is started from the second last para and ends at the first section in the document. The prepend_content() method is used to copy the contents from the source section to the target section.

This article has taught us how to remove section break using Python. If you want to learn the process to replace words in a Word document, refer to the article on how to replace words in a Word document using Python.