If you had to edit text documents that were created by someone else, then you probably ran into problems. One such problem may be blank pages that cannot be deleted. This is exactly the case we will consider in this article. Here you can learn how to delete blank page in Word 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.
Blank pages are usually removed without problems. It is enough to position the cursor at the end of a blank page and erase all spaces and line breaks. Then the blank page is deleted without any problems. But, in some cases, this does not work. You can press the Backspace and Delete keys as much as you like, but the page still refuses to be deleted.
Most often, this problem is associated with non-printable characters that are on the page. To solve a similar problem and finally remove this unfortunate page, you need to do just a couple of steps. First, you need to enable the display of non-printable characters. This is done very simply. If you have Word 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016, then you you need to open the "Home" tab and click on the "Show all symbols" button... You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + 8.
If you are using Word 2003, then this button should be somewhere on the toolbar.
After clicking this button, all non-printable characters will begin to display in the Word document. Now you need to go to the blank page that is not being deleted and remove any non-printable characters from it. In addition to everything else, be sure to remove the page break. Since it is he, in most cases, blocks the deletion of blank pages. To remove a page break, place the cursor in front of it and press the DELETE key on your keyboard.
In some cases, the deletion of blank pages in the Word may be blocked by a section break. If such an unprintable character is on a blank page, then it must be removed. It is removed in the same way as the page break. You need to place the cursor in front of the section break and press the DELETE key on the keyboard.
If necessary, after deleting blank pages, the section break can be restored. In Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 for this use the button "Breaks" on the Page Layout tab.
In this article I will tell you how to delete a page in Word. First, we will learn how to remove blank sheets from the document, and then pages with text.
How to remove a blank sheet
To remove blank sheets in the Word, it is enough to remove unnecessary paragraphs and breaks. These symbols are hidden by default, so you need to show them first.
To display hidden symbols, use the following button ¶. It is located at the top of the program, in the "Home" section.
Click on the ¶ button once with the left mouse button. Immediately after this, the document changes - dots and incomprehensible signs appear in it.
This text does not look very pleasant, but we see everything that is hidden. Including paragraphs, spaces and breaks. These symbols create blank pages.
It remains to remove unnecessary characters. To do this, place the blinking cursor where the text ends - click there with the left mouse button. Then we press several times the Delete or Del key on the keyboard.
And if there are a lot of extra characters, then it's easier not to delete them one by one, but select all at once.
To do this, press the left mouse button where the hidden signs end and, without releasing the mouse, drag the cursor up. When all these signs are highlighted in blue, press the Delete or Backspace key once.
After that, press the ¶ button to remove hidden symbols. The document will again become the same as it was - without dots and icons.
This method works in any version of Microsoft Office Word: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and others.
If the blank page is not removed
It happens that there is a table at the end of the document. And now, often after it, another blank sheet is added, which cannot be removed in any way.
The fact is that in the Word program, by default, a paragraph is inserted after the table. And if the table is at the very end, then this paragraph is moved below. Thus, it creates an unnecessary page.
You cannot cut this paragraph, but you can hide it:
one . Turn off the display of non-printable characters, if they are shown (¶ button).
2. Select the paragraph at the end of the table - on a new sheet. To do this, move the cursor to the left margin of the document (near the empty paragraph) and click there once with the left mouse button.
3. When the paragraph is highlighted, which means that a small rectangle of blue color appears, move the cursor over it and click right click... From the menu, select the item "Font ...".
4 . In the window that appears, put the bird on "Hidden" and click OK.
After that, the empty paragraph is removed. And along with it, a blank page in the Word is deleted.
How to delete a page with text
When you need to erase a page from a document on which something is printed, this is done through the selection of the text and the Delete or Backspace keys. And it doesn't matter where the text is: at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of the document (between pages).
By the way, pictures and photos are removed from the Word in the same way - select them and press Delete.
- We move the cursor to the very beginning of the sheet on the left margin (where there is nothing).
- Press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, drag downward, thereby painting over the text.
- When everything is highlighted, release the mouse button and press the Delete or Backspace key on the keyboard.
On a note . If there is a table at the end of the sheet, then select it not exactly at the end, but a little more. So that the "tail" is affected - one or two lines after the table.
When working with text in Word, page breaks are often used, as well as sections. Subsequently, unnecessary paragraphs appear, which means extra blank sheets in the Word file. If after the option with the "Delete" or "Backspace" button the page is not deleted, then it is worth considering the option of deleting the page by means of a formatting sign. There are several options for removing an extra page with content or a completely empty blank sheet. The methods that will be described below work in almost all versions of Microsoft Word - 2007, 2010, as well as in 2013 and 2016.
Extra paragraphs
You can delete a sheet by removing unnecessary paragraphs. To understand if there are extra paragraphs in the document, you need to click on the "Show all characters" button in the main menu. To do this, open the "Home" menu, find and click on such a symbol.
Unnecessary paragraphs cause blank pages. When all the text is accompanied by a symbol, then it is easy to see unnecessary paragraphs.
It is necessary to select and delete by clicking on the "Delete" button.
Page break
This method is slightly similar to the method above. To see where the page or section break was made, you must enable the familiar button. Scroll through the document and find the page you want to delete. Place the cursor in front of or after the page break, as shown in the screenshot below, and click on the "Delete" button. When setting the mouse pointer after the break, you need to use the "Backspace" button.
Paragraph after the table
For example, the article has a table, probably also at the end of the page. This is the reason for the appearance of a blank unnecessary sheet. Most often, after the table, MS Word automatically adds a paragraph, which, unfortunately, cannot be deleted by the two above methods. In our case, the blank page was the last one, here's how to solve the problem with its removal.
Naturally, the help of the symbol is needed, we turn it on and return to a blank sheet.
This is the view after turning on the display of all signs.
A symbol that is completely alone, and creates an extra page with its presence. It is necessary to remove it in the following steps.
1) Select a sign on a blank page and press the key combination "Ctrl + D";
2) In the "Font" window put a check mark in front of the "Hidden" function;
4) Disable the symbol (when disabled it does not light up in yellow) or use the key combination "Ctrl + Shift + 8";
5) The blank sheet is removed.
Section Break Correction
If you use the From Even Page or From Odd Page section breaks, then a blank page will appear. It will not work to remove this sheet by means of the "Cut" key combination or "delete with the Del button". If a blank page appears in the middle of the document, then deleting it will break all text formatting. You can fix this problem, you just need to replace the section break "on the current page". This way, all text formatting will be preserved without adding a blank sheet. In the following steps, you can replace the section break with "Current page break". This requires:
The blank page is removed without damaging the entire document.
Cutting out unwanted sheets from your document is easy. It's a little more difficult to deal with blank pages that suddenly appear in the middle or end. We will figure out how to delete a page in the Word - we will check all the methods from simple ones to manipulating with hidden signs.
The easiest way is to delete an unnecessary page with the "Delete" or "Backspace" buttons on the keyboard. To get rid of the last sheet, move the cursor to the end of the document. If the excess content is in the middle, select it by holding down the left mouse button. If the sheets are already blank, but still cannot be deleted, place the cursor on them and press the delete keys several times to remove hidden characters.
- Place your cursor at the beginning of the page. Hold down the left mouse button and check the cursor to the end of the fragment to be deleted.
- Place your cursor at the beginning. Scroll to the end of the section you want to erase. Hold down the Shift key and left-click at the end of the sentence. The text that falls between the two marks will be highlighted.
To erase the selection, press Backspace or Delete. In principle, you can do without highlighting, erasing letters one by one using the same keys.
It will take a little longer, but will lead to a similar result - extra words and sentences will be thrown out of the text, as if they had never been there.
Removing a blank sheet
Why is there a blank sheet? No, this is not an offer from Vord to write more than you intended. It's just that the page contains extra paragraphs, page or section breaks, and other non-printable characters. By default, they are not displayed, which is why it seems that you have a blank sheet in front of you. But if you click on such an icon on the top bar, you can find all non-printable characters. ...
Note: If there are no extra sheets in the document, but they only appear when printing, check the printer settings. On some models, the options set to print a separator page between different jobs.
This is a handy feature that allows you to quickly separate different documents when they are printed in one batch. But if you do not know about its existence, then you will probably be surprised to see a blank sheet, for some reason driven through the printer.
If the extra page is at the very end of the document, go to it using the Ctrl + End combination or simply scroll down the screen. Make sure the cursor is at the very end of the document and press the Backspace key. This will be enough if a blank sheet appeared due to extra paragraph marks or an accidentally inserted break.
Determining the cause
If simply pressing the Backspace key at the end of the document does not solve the problem, try to pinpoint the cause of the problem. To do this, turn on the display of non-printable characters and see what is happening on a blank page. You can do this on the "Home" tab - this is true for both Windows and Mac.
If the reason for the appearance of a blank sheet is extra paragraph marks, then you will see these symbols. They need to be selected and erased using the Delete or Backspace key. If the void is due to the insertion of a break, place the mouse cursor directly in front of it and press Delete. On Mac and Word Online, the operation is similar.
If a blank page appears after a table inserted into the document, then it's all about the empty paragraph mark, which is added by default.
You cannot delete it, but you can hide it.
If you do everything correctly, a blank sheet will surely disappear along with the thoughts that you cannot cope with a simple text editing operation in Word.
If your document has an extra blank page, it may contain blank paragraphs, manually inserted page breaks or section breaks. There are several ways to get rid of a blank page. The first step is to find out why this blank page appeared.
Notes:
The easy way
If the extra blank page is at the end of the document, try using CTRL + END to go to the end of the document and press the BACKSPACE key. If a blank page appears due to extra paragraph marks or an accidentally manually added page break, it is quickly removed this way.
Note: To delete multiple blank paragraphs, you will have to press the BACKSPACE key multiple times.
If this does not help, you need to look for another reason for the blank page. In the video below, Doug will help you fix this problem.
To get rid of unnecessary pages, follow these steps.
To see what is causing the blank page to appear, turn on the display of paragraph marks.
By enabling the display of paragraph marks, you can see why a blank page appears in your document.
Extra paragraphs
If there are extra blank paragraphs at the end of your document, you will see paragraph marks (¶) on the blank page. Select them and delete them by pressing the DELETE key.
Forced page break
If a blank page appears due to a manually added page break, place your cursor in front of the page break and press DELETE to delete it.
The same reason very often leads to the appearance of an extra blank page in the middle of the document.
Word might cause a new page to be created because of the next page, odd page, and even page section breaks. If a blank page is at the end of the document and a section break is shown there, place your cursor in front of the section break and press DELETE to delete it. In this case, the empty page should be deleted.
Note: If you don't see the section breaks, try opening the tab View on the ribbon and switch to draft mode.
Attention: If a section break causes a blank page to appear in the middle of a document, removing the break may result in a blank page out of formatting. If you want the document content after this point to have different formatting, leave a section break. If you remove a section break, the formatting of the pages after the break will be propagated to the pages before it. Although you can change the type of section break - the "on current page" break will allow you to preserve the changed formatting without adding a blank page.
To convert a section break to a "on current page" break, do the following:
The blank page should be removed without compromising formatting.
Table at the end of the document
If you are still unable to get rid of the blank page at the end of the document, it is very likely that there is a table on the previous page that goes to its end. In Word, after the table, an empty paragraph must be indicated, and when the table reaches the end of the page, it is transferred to the next page. You cannot remove this blank paragraph mark.
Note: Many resume templates are formatted as full page tables.
The easiest solution to this problem is to hide the empty paragraph at the end of the document.
Select the paragraph mark and press CTRL + D to open the Font dialog box.
Check the box hiddento hide the paragraph.
Disable the display of paragraph marks by clicking Show or hide ¶ on the ribbon, or CTRL + SHIFT + 8.
The extra page should disappear.
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Note: If you want to delete an entire document, rather than individual blank pages in it, open Finder, find the file you want, and drag it to the trash. Items are permanently deleted only if you empty the trash.
home press the button Show all non-printable characters (¶) or press the +8 keys.
Empty paragraph marks
If you find empty paragraph marks (¶), select them with the mouse and delete.
Manually added page breaks
To remove a manually inserted page break, select it with your mouse and press the DELETE key. You can also click the left margin of the page break to select it and press DELETE.
Section breaks
To remove a section break, select it with your mouse and press the DELETE key.
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Follow these steps to remove blank paragraphs and page breaks using Word Online.
If you have the desktop Word application, you can use the command Open in Wordto open the document and remove the section breaks.
Its arsenal contains several hundred different operations for working with both textual information and graphic data.
The main advantages of MS Word over other editors include:
- performing absolutely all traditional operations on documents,
- the presence of innovative technology OLE, which allows you to embed text fragments, images, tables, etc., made using various Windows applications into a file
- availability of various technological solutions that turn routine work into an exciting process (for example, a collection of ready-made templates and styles, or the ability to copy and auto-replace text).
- Availability of specialized functions of publishing systems to a wide range of users. With the help of MS Word, you can not only professionally make up layouts, but also prepare them for subsequent sending to the printing house.
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Getting started: creating a page
As a rule, it is customary to start any business from a new sheet. Working in MS Word, in this case, is no exception.
Initially, new pages are automatically created by the program itself as needed.
That is, when the previous page is completely filled with information.
However, there are situations when, for example, additional information has appeared, and it is required to place it between the already existing blocks, but on a separate page, or transition to a new sheet requires the beginning of a section or chapter.
If you want to create a new document, you must hover over the Microsoft logo and, activating the drop-down menu, select "Create".
To break a page (when you need to start from a new page when the previous one is not completely filled in), it will be enough to place the cursor in the desired place and press the combination "CTRL + ENTER" on the keyboard or in the "Insert" submenu select "Page", "Page break" ... 
To insert a blank page in a Word between two filled ones, you need to place the cursor at the end of the first page and in the "Insert" submenu, select "Page", "Blank page". 
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Get rid of unnecessary or blank pages
If there is only one page in the newly created document, and the information contained on it does not need to be saved, to delete it will be enough to select all the text and press "Delete" or "BackSpace" (the same method is suitable for deleting any separate non-blank page) or simply quit with the program, answering the question about saving in the negative.
And then how to delete a blank page in Word?
To cut it, you need to place the cursor anywhere on this page, select the "Find" section in the "Home" submenu and enter "\\ page" (without quotes) in the pop-up window that appears.
Thus, all text on the sheet will be instantly selected, and to delete it, you just need to press "Delete" or "Backspace" on the keyboard.
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There may be several options for deleting a page in a Word:
- by pressing the combination "CTRL + END" move to the end of the document and hold down the "Backspace" key until the extra page disappears.
- In the submenu "Home" find and click on the symbol "¶". This will display all non-printable characters (such as spaces).
After that, it will be enough either to remove the spaces from, as it turned out, a non-empty page, or on the previous sheet before the empty one, double-click the left mouse button on the "Page Break" and press one of the keys, "Delete" or "Backspace".
"Access Denied" or what to do when the text is protected from editing
To make changes to a document protected from editing with a password, it is enough to find out the password itself from its creator.
Then go to the "Review" submenu and find the "Protect Document" tab.
In the “Protect document” tab, enter the password by selecting “Disable protection”.
After that, access to editing will be open.
If it is not possible to find out the password, there is a workaround.
In the window that appears, you must specify a new name for the document and select the extension "Web page". Then the document is closed.
The new file is opened with a notepad. This can be done by right-clicking on it once and selecting the item in the drop-down menu "Open with", selecting Notepad as the preferred program.
After that, in the opened document, find the line “w: nprotectPassword\u003e any text” and delete it. Next, you need to save the changes and close the program.
Reopen the file using MS Word and, by going to the "Review" submenu, in the "Protect document" tab, select the "Disable protection" item. Then we save the document under the desired name and in the required format.
Users' knowledge of the work of computer programs is far from always enough to get out of a difficult situation on their own, and some often have a question of how to delete a page in the Word.
It is this text editor that is most often used to create, read and edit documents in all areas of activity.
To figure out how to properly remove an extra blank or filled page, saving space and not damaging the entire text, consider a few simple ways.
Method number 1. Delete unnecessary new document
In the case when the document is just created, and all the information typed is no longer needed (copied or used, or requires correction), it is very easy to delete all its contents. To do this, just close the file, refusing to save the changes.
To continue working in the document, you can simply select all the text (hot keys "Ctrl" + "A") and press Delete or BackSpace. The last deletion option is also suitable if there is only one sheet in the document.
Method number 2. Removing a blank sheet
In order to delete a blank page, you need to do the following:
- Place the cursor at the desired location;
- Select the icon for displaying all characters on the Word 2007 panel (and any other version) or just press simultaneously "Ctrl", "Shift" and "8".
Now, on the sheet in the middle of the document, the paragraph marks, headers and footers, and spaces will appear instead of blank. All of them take up space, but can be easily removed by pressing the BackSpace key in turn, and by selecting all invisible characters at once.
By clearing a blank sheet of signs, it is automatically removed.
Method number 3. Removing the last blank sheet
Sometimes at the end of the text you can see the last blank sheet or even several. This increases the printer's print queue and file size, and therefore requires deletion. To quickly fix the problem, you don't even need to enable special characters.
You just need to place the cursor at the end of the last sheet and press BackSpace until it is deleted with all its formatting.
Method number 4. Deleting a page of text
If you need to delete not an empty part of the document, but filled with text, images or other visible inserts, there are two main options for resolving the issue.
Deletion occurs using the cursor or special Word commands - each method has advantages for its situation.
Second page
Suppose there is a document whose second sheet you want to delete.
The simplest option, suitable for Word 2007, 2003 and even earlier versions, including the 1995 program:
- Scroll the document to the top of the element to be deleted;
- Move the cursor over the field opposite the first line and select it;
- Move with the mouse wheel to the bottom (or the entire text if you need to delete several sheets) without clicking the text;
- Press "Shift" and, without releasing it, select the very last line of the deleted part of the document. As a result, all text on the sheet will be selected.
Now you can erase it, leaving the rest of the document intact and freeing up some unnecessary information. In the same way, you can delete several sheets in a row, selecting them from the beginning of the first to the end of the last, and even most of the document.
Although in the latter case, when only a few paragraphs need to be saved from the entire text, and the main volume is deleted, it is easier and faster to copy the necessary information into a new document.
Page within a large document
If you have to delete not the first or the second, but, for example, the 120th or even the 532nd page, their search inside a large document can take some time. To save it, use the following method.
- First of all, a transition is made to the page that needs to be cleared. To do this, simultaneously press the "Ctrl" and "F" keys on the keyboard, which open the search and replace window.
- Then the "Go" tab is selected, and the page number is entered into it.
- All that now remains to be done for cleaning is to type the command "\\ page" instead of its number and click "Go".
Now you can close the search bar (the cross in its upper right part) and easily get rid of the unnecessary page of one of the keyboard keys intended for this.
The method is great for large documents and saves time for users of any version of a text editor, including Word 2013. It is not always advisable to use it to delete a part of a small amount of information.
Advice! Instead of highlighting with commands, it will be more convenient and faster for some users to mark the deleted text with the mouse - in this case, use only the first part of the method to find the desired place.
