This section break in Word will not delete

Turned on show formatting, clicked right before the section break, pressed delete. Nothing. Backspace from after it, nothing. It's breaking my page numbering. Is the document locked somehow?
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marth_setup Nov 12, 2026
mayurbyte
if you can't click into the right spot, switch to View > Draft. the break shows as a plain dotted line across the page and you can click it and delete it much more easily.
techella Oct 19, 2026
mayurbyte
turn on the paragraph marks first (the ¶ button on the Home tab) so you can actually see the break, click just before it and press Delete. If it still refuses, check Track Changes is off - with it on, the break just goes red and struck through instead of disappearing. One thing to know: the section before the break takes on the formatting of the section after it. So if one part was landscape or had different margins, the page layout can suddenly change when the break goes. Undo and fix the page setup first if that happens.