Ummm - that's not the way it's working here. Regardless of what you do prior
to inserting new section, new headers and footers always link to previous - I
just tried it to confirm. I've never seen it work any other way on any
version of Word.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you unlink section 2 from section 1, new sections that are subsequently
created should also be unlinked.