diff --git a/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts.rs b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts.rs
index decfe26..6d93263 100644
--- a/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts.rs
+++ b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts.rs
@@ -642,16 +642,31 @@ pub(super) fn handle_delete_shortcut(app: &mut PlotiumApp, ctx: &egui::Context)
         }
         return;
     }
-    if ctx.egui_wants_keyboard_input() {
+    // Clicking a sidebar row focuses it, which egui reports as wanting the
+    // keyboard; only a focused text editor should keep the key for itself.
+    if ctx.egui_wants_keyboard_input() && !super::primary_sidebar::selection::list_row_focused(ctx)
+    {
         return;
     }
     delete_selection(app, ctx);
 }
 
-/// What Delete/Backspace removes, most specific first: page-space authoring
-/// objects, a selected panel letter, then (outside analysis tools, which own the
-/// key for their own marks) the selected panel or the selected board pages.
+/// What Delete/Backspace removes. A page selection (board or sidebar) removes
+/// the pages, since object selections left on the page behind it are not what
+/// the user last picked. Otherwise most specific first: page-space authoring
+/// objects, a selected panel letter, then the selected panel. Analysis tools
+/// own the key for their own marks, so they never remove panels or pages.
 fn delete_selection(app: &mut PlotiumApp, ctx: &egui::Context) {
+    use plotium_core::state::SelectionScope;
+    if matches!(
+        app.session.ui.selection_scope,
+        SelectionScope::Board | SelectionScope::CanvasList
+    ) {
+        if app.session.tool.axis() != plotium_core::state::ToolAxis::Analyze {
+            delete_selected_panel_or_pages(app, ctx);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
     if super::plot_annotations::delete_selected(app) {
         return;
     }
diff --git a/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_delete_tests.rs b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_delete_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6956f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_delete_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+use super::*;
+use plotium_core::state::{
+    BoardFrameId, CanvasObject, CanvasObjectKind, ObjectFrame, SelectionScope, TextBox,
+};
+
+/// Select the second of three pages from the sidebar list, as a click does.
+fn select_sidebar_page(app: &mut PlotiumApp) {
+    app.session.ui.frame_selection = vec![BoardFrameId::Page(app.doc.canvases[1].resource_id)];
+    app.session.ui.selection_scope = SelectionScope::CanvasList;
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn delete_on_a_focused_page_row_deletes_the_selected_page() {
+    let (mut app, _) = app_with_pages(3);
+    let removed = app.doc.canvases[1].resource_id;
+    select_sidebar_page(&mut app);
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    let _ = ctx.run_ui(egui::RawInput::default(), |ui| {
+        let row = ui.selectable_label(true, "Page");
+        super::super::primary_sidebar::selection::claim_list_keyboard_focus(ui, &row);
+    });
+    let _ = ctx.run_ui(backspace(), |ui| {
+        let _ = ui.selectable_label(true, "Page");
+        handle_delete_shortcut(&mut app, ui.ctx());
+    });
+
+    assert_eq!(app.doc.canvases.len(), 2, "{}", app.session.status);
+    assert!(app.doc.canvases.iter().all(|c| c.resource_id != removed));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_page_selection_deletes_the_page_not_a_remembered_object() {
+    let (mut app, _) = app_with_pages(3);
+    let id = app.doc.canvases[0].allocate_object_id();
+    app.execute_action(Action::insert_object(
+        0,
+        CanvasObject {
+            id,
+            name: "Note".into(),
+            frame: ObjectFrame::new(10., 10., 50., 20.),
+            locked: false,
+            visible: true,
+            kind: CanvasObjectKind::Text(TextBox::label("note".into())),
+        },
+        Selection::None,
+    ));
+    app.session.ui.selection = Selection::Objects(vec![id]);
+    select_sidebar_page(&mut app);
+
+    delete_selection(&mut app, &egui::Context::default());
+
+    assert_eq!(app.doc.canvases.len(), 2, "{}", app.session.status);
+    assert!(app.doc.canvases[0].object(id).is_some());
+}
diff --git a/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_tests.rs b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_tests.rs
index be0249e..b4c0cbc 100644
--- a/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/app/src/ui/shortcuts_tests.rs
@@ -750,3 +750,6 @@ fn tab_from_the_cell_editor_keeps_typing_in_the_sheet() {
     assert!(command.is_none());
     assert!(sheet.app.session.ui.table_cell_edit.is_some());
 }
+
+#[path = "shortcuts_delete_tests.rs"]
+mod delete;