Please define “exported”.
compiled pdf and docx files
So you are saying that the issue is there twice when you compile with the first document duplicated?
If so, delete the title of that document, and type it anew.
[EDIT] Crap. Nevermind, your compile format doesn’t compile the titles…
I dunno.
You could ask someone from LL to have a look at your project.
I’m all out of (bad) ideas.
No worries, I guess I can compile to docx then delete the two paragraph breaks and then export as a pdf.
Thank you for spending so much time to try to figure this out on your own.
You are welcome.
Wish I could figure it out, but it ain’t happening.
There is one last thing I could suggest for you to try…
(Funky, and definitely NOT by the book.)
On the very first line of your problematic document, add a symbol from the character map before the first word.
Like: ӁDear
Then, in your compile format, replace returnӁ with nothing.
See if it works.
It didn’t 
I reached out to LL and linked this forum. Hopefully they can figure something out. Thank you again for all of your troubleshooting ideas.
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It’s known issue on S3 for Win. You’ll always get an empty line above a new chapter when compiling to Word or PDF.
Two lines, no. One line, yes.
Thing is, as much as I remember, that bug only affects sections from the second one and down. (But maybe I’m wrong.)
I’ve checked. You’re correct.
My first Section is a Prologue (Folder and Documents)–no line break. My next section is Part One–line break before the title, then my Chapters begin (Folder and Documents)–line break before the first line and for each subsequent Chapter.
This affects accurate TOC links as well as they take you to the end of the prior section, instead of to the start of the section you want.
There is a workaround that I use when printing out character sheets (mine are table documents), which have a different symbol for a page break, so their TOC links takes me to the correct character.