title: copy contents of a section to another section, without disturbing section breaks?
body: <p>I have a source and a destination Word 2013 doc.  Each document has multiple section breaks with very particular footers in each of those sections which I cannot disturb.  I need to copy just the <em>contents</em> (without the section break) of a certain section from the source doc, and paste those contents to a certain section of the destination doc - e.g. copy the text of source section 3 to dest section 5.  </p>
  
  <p>The problem is that when I copy the source section, that copy command also includes the section break character from the source doc.  So when I paste it into the destination doc, it either blows away that dest section's break character (or adds a new section if that destination section was the last one in the document, and therefore did not have a section break character following it).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way in Word, with a VBA macro, to copy just the raw contents of a given section from the source document <em>without</em> copying that section's section break and paste them into a different doc <strong>without blowing away that destination section's  section break</strong>? </p>
  
  <p>I have tried all sort of variations like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>source.Sections(3).Range.Select
  source.Sections(3).Range.Copy
  dest.Sections(5).Range.Select
  dest.Sections(5).Range.Paste
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the paste line disturbs the section breaks of the destination document.   I have also tried reducing the selection length from the source doc (before I copy it) by one character, hoping to exclude the section break:</p>
  
  <pre><code>source.Sections(3).Range.Select
  source.ActiveWindow.Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:= -1  ' (I also tried -2, -3, etc)
  source.Sections(3).Range.Copy
  dest.Sections(5).Range.Select
  dest.ActiveWindow.Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:= -1  ' (I also tried -2, -3, etc)
  dest.Sections(5).Range.Paste
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These reductions in the selection reduce the actual text of the section, but dont seem to exclude the section break, which I assume is in the selection range?</p>