Merge a heading into the previous chapter

What you'll do: fold a stray heading into the chapter before it, so it stops starting a brand-new chapter.

Sometimes a heading was styled as Heading 1 in Word but is really just a part of the chapter above it — a sub-heading or a section break. Merging fixes that without you having to change anything in Word.

Steps

1. Go to the Chapters step.
2. Find the heading that shouldn't be its own chapter.
3. Click Move to… on its row.
4. Choose Merge into [previous chapter].

The heading gets a Merged badge and now flows inside the chapter above it.

Undo a merge

Click undo on the Merged badge to separate it again and restore it as its own heading.

Tip: if instead you want the heading to be a smaller heading within the chapter rather than merged away, change its zone to Section — see Tell Bookbndr which headings are chapters, parts, or sections.