How can I remove sections?

[jricjr]

I try backspace, I try clicking on it, but I can't seem to delete the page section, only the content in it.  I guess I could probably do it with the source editor, but there must be an easier way?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Click on the "page layout" button to get the section menu to drop down, click on the section you want to kill off, then use "remove section" from the menu

[Ricky McMaster]

Yes this works perfectly, thank you.

[Peter Scriven]

Took me a second to find the "Page Layout" button, for those similarly blind: 

[dougknudsen]

Unfortunately, the option to non-destructively remove multi-sections as shown in the above comment and return to a single panel is only available in Server/Data-Center. If you are on the Cloud, the editor has regressed to a destructive removal of sections only.

It is rather a pain after using Server for all these years.

[Sherryl Savage]

Thanks for this , I was trying to do just that after moving to cloud version, that messed things up a bit with section layouts . Tried cleaning  up page and almost removed multiple sections  that were multi panels .  Saved me :) Would be helpful to have a hack for cloud version to delete one panel in a multi panel / 'column' section.  :) , or better include it in the cloud version. :)

[ABC Taylor]

This demonstrates how much the editor has to improve still. This is a pretty basic ask.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Actually, this is a bit of an odd one - most of us are screaming to get sections back!

[Aleksei Kshumanev]

Well, I've just found an easy workaround.

• Create a new temporary page.
• Create a section on this new page via "Other macros" -> "Section" -> "Insert".
  
• Copy and paste all the section parts from your original corrupted page into this section in your new page. It will not be corrupted inside of the section macros.
  
  
  
• Open "Page layout" in your original corrupted page and press "Remove section" until your document is not COMPLETELY blank. Make sure it is.
  
• Select and copy all the data from the section in the temporary page. Paste it into the old empty page.
• Remove the temporary page.
• Congratulations :)

[Shawn Connelly]

Unfortunately, there is no way to remove sections (page layouts) non-destructively. :(

[Jan Herzog]

There is a way to do this using the free 'Confluence Source Editor' add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor?hosting=server&tab=overview

Once installed and activated, you have to (carefully!!) remove all the tags pertaining to the layout macro (<ac:layout...>) including their respective closing tags by hand.

It's not a pretty solution, but it has worked for me several times. And using the built-in Search & Replace function of the add-on, it's not that hard to do, either.

But it would sure be nice if Atlassian added a possibility to remove section/layout macros without deleting all the content that's in them without hacking the source code!