Word replacing “next page” section breaks with continuous section breaks

I have a Microsoft Word document with many section breaks, most of which are of the “Next Page” variety. On the last page I have a continuous section break. If I try to remove this continuous break, it then changes the previous section break into a continuous one. If I delete that one, it does the same to the previous one! How can I stop it from doing that?

Answer

Whenever you delete a section break, the section before that break takes on the page layout of the section after that break. So when you delete that Continuous break the break before will always change to a Continuous break. You then just go into the page layout and change it back to Next Page.