Make sure the Link to Previous control is selected for both the header and footer.
The header is displayed and the insertion point is within it. There is a workaround you can use, however: Unfortunately, there is no intrinsic way to delete section breaks and maintain the formatting represented by that break. This may be what you want, but it can also be a pain if you want to delete the final section break in a document and you don’t want the previous text to lose its section formatting. If you have worked with sections before, you already know that if you delete a section break, the text before the break then adopts the section formatting characteristics of the section after the break. Other issues of WordTips detail how you can insert section breaks and apply section formatting. Of the three, section formatting is often the most confusing formatting for people to understand. Word allows you to format your documents on three general levels: sections, paragraphs, and characters.
