Note I said optionally shown, not optionally included, because you can’t delete them. Then click on the Footer button in the Header & Footer group.Select Remove Footer from the popup menu. The even pages footer, similarly, is optionally shown for the even-numbered pages (used for book-type publications). If your document has a lot of complex formatting, you may want to save a recovery version of it before you start deleting section breaks. Scroll your page down until you see a area called ‘Options’. From the Word Ribbon, click the tab Page Layout and then click Breaks under the group Page Setup. In this case, delete one of the page numbers in that section in order to remove all the page numbers. This also activates the Header & Footer Tools section on Word’s Ribbon. Click the Close button on the Header and Footer Toolbar.
Place the insertion point just after the final section break. How to remove footer sections in word > Customize > Footer.
