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1) What is a section break ?
A Section Break is an object/container that stores information about the structure of the document.
It is very important to understand that the section breaks stores information about the preceeding section

2) How can I see if a document contains any section breaks ?
Home tab, Show/Hide paragraph marks

3) How many different types of section breaks are there ?
There are four types:

Next Page - starts the new section on the next page 
Continuous - starts the new section on the same page 
Even Page - starts the new section on the next even-numbered page 
Odd Page - starts the new section on the next odd-numbered page 

4) What type of information does a section break contain ?

Headers and Footers 
Page Setup (Margins and Orientation) 
Column Arrangement 

5) Can you insert the section number into the document ?
Yes. You can use the SECTION field.

6) Is there a quick way to indicate what section I am currently in ?
Yes. By default the page number is displayed in the bottom left corner of the status bar.
It is possible to display the section number on the status bar.
Right mouse click on the status bar to display Customise Status Bar.
At the very top tick "Section".

7) Is there a section break in a new/blank document ?
Yes. Word has a "Default" section break that is included in the very last paragraph mark of a document.
If a document does not contain any section breaks, this final paragraph mark contains all the information about the document.
This section break is completely hidden and is never displayed, even with Paragraph Marks
Every document contains at least one section.

8) What happens to the headers and footers when a section break is deleted ?
The information that is stored in this section break is replaced with the information from the next section.
Everything before the section break is reformatted to match what is after the section break.
When you delete the break between Section A and Section B, the following happens.

Section A absorbs Section B's body content 
Section A's header/footer definition remains 
Section B's header/footer definition is discarded