You should be able to use either .execute (which returns true if it's found) or .Found. Read up on help on the find object as well as the execute method. They tell you what they can do. This will also help you learn other items too.

for section never... You already have that answer it's the .index property of the section object (which you're already using to make sure you process the first section's headers/footers (my addition to your code)