Removing/changing soft page breaks

I have a Word document that is generating 'soft' page breaks in locations that don't make sense. I have a page with only a few lines of text and the rest of the page is blank. The paragraph then continues at the top of the next page. How can I fix this problem?

This is not due to a manual 'hard' page break. When I view the document in draft mode, there are no formatting icons except for a horizontal dotted line at the location of the page break. I cannot select or delete that line.

It also does not appear due to pagination settings. I selected the surrounding text, navigated to the Line and Page Breaks tab in the Paragraph window, and un-selected all of the Pagination settings. 

I suspect that the problem might be related to the fact that I have Drawing Canvases and Equations at other locations in the document.
Stefan Blom
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Last updated April 14, 2025 Views 743 Applies to: