Is there a way to stop the scene break (***) appearing after the final scene of my manuscript on compile? When I compile to a word document, I always have to delete the final scene break, is there a way to mark the end of the manuscript so I don’t need to do this?
It doesn’t seem to be an issue with compiling as an epub, it’s just the word doc format that does this.
Thanks in advance 
That’s an unusual one! Try this:
If that’s not it, other things to check for are inadvertent empty lines at the end of scenes, as you can see in the settings here, those can be converted to visible separators too. You could erase the setting there, but a better solution would be to be to go back to the main compile overview screen, and in the General Options tab on the right, enable Remove trailing whitespace from documents. You probably don’t want those anyway, either invisible or as asterisks.
Or you could create a section type for the last scene or chapter based on how book if formatted. Label it last Scene or chapter and apply to the last document. Now go into the compile format designer and make a Last Scene/chapter layout. and go to separators and remove any separators for this. Assign last scene Layout to the Last scene section type and see if separator is gone.
There’s also a setting to show the text “The end” that may contain asterisks instead.
