Sometimes when working with the Microsoft Word text editor, such a problem may arise - an empty sheet has formed. Everything would be fine, only by chance it can be created in the middle of the document, and this will disrupt the duplex printing process or knock down the page numbering.

In general, from blank sheets you always need to get rid of otherwise at the end of the work you can get a marriage. To avoid possible problems I recommend that you always use the Print Preview function before printing. You can launch it by clicking on the " office» — « Seal» — « Preview».

Now back to our blank sheets. So, our task is to remove the blank sheet from the document. Pages for a document in MS Word are created by pressing just one button, which is located in the tab " Insert". But it’s not so easy to remove the sheet, although this is also not a very difficult process.

Another option to create a sheet is to click on the button Enter. That is, by pressing this button many times, you can reach the end of the current page and go to a new one. Accordingly, in order to remove the sheet, you need to remove the indents, and you can do this using the buttons " Delete" and " backspace».

It's very simple. Similarly, you can remove a blank page located in the middle of the document.

By the way, to calculate where the indents are, the button " Show all icons". Clicking on it will allow you to see all the indents between words or the presence of paragraphs in any part of the document.

Also, be sure to review the blank page and the previous one, as the first one could be created due to the created “ Page break". You can remove it using all the same buttons " Delete" and " backspace».

Well, another option for deleting a blank page is the key combination " ctrl+Z» - undo the previous action. That is, when using this combination, you cancel the last action you performed, which could be clicking on the “Page Break” button or putting an extra indent with Enter.

If for some reason you do not have access to the keyboard, then in the window text editor There is a "Cancel" button. It is located in the upper left part of the Microsoft Word program window, next to the " office».

Working with documents implies not only typing text, but also its formatting, bringing it into line with certain requirements. Therefore, it is so important to know how to delete a page in Word and get rid of extra numbers. This allows you to improve appearance document, which positively affects its readability and general perception.

Removing blank and extra pages

To delete a page in Word 2010, just remove all the characters that are on it. Even if you see a blank sheet in front of you, there may be hidden formatting marks on it.


If at the end of the Word document you see an extra blank page, then do the same with it - display the hidden characters and delete them all.

If there is text on the sheet you want to delete, it's best to select it before deleting it. Otherwise, you will have to erase each letter separately, which is inconvenient. You can select text with the cursor by holding down the left mouse button.

Another way to quickly select:

  1. Place the cursor at the beginning of a piece of text.
  2. Hold down the "Shift" key.
  3. Put courses at the end of the fragment.

The procedure for deleting blank sheets in Word 2003, 2007 and 2010 is absolutely identical. No new ways appear over the years.

How to remove page numbers in Word

Adding and removing numbering in Word 2010 is as simple as possible - all these procedures are performed by pressing one button. The procedure will be as follows:


There is an easier way:

  1. Double left click on the page number. The footer window will open.
  2. Select a number.
  3. Click "Delete".

Conclusion

Deleting sheets is sometimes accompanied by a change in document formatting. The user simply accidentally removes the signs that are responsible for how the text is placed on the sheet. This rarely happens, but if it happens, then fixing the flaw becomes quite problematic. The easiest way out is to copy the desired fragment and paste it into a new document.

To delete a page in Word, delete the content of the page, or adjust the layout and formatting to reduce the number of pages in the document

To delete a page that contains text, pictures, or empty paragraphs, select the content you want to delete and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Advice: Click anywhere on the page you want to delete, press Ctrl + g (Option + ⌘ + G on Mac) and then in the box Enter page number enter _z0z_. Press the Enter key and then the button close.
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Make sure the content page is selected, and then press the DELETE key on your keyboard.

Word includes a non-removable end-of-paragraph character that sometimes shifts to a new blank page at the end of a document. The way to remove this page is to ensure that the end of the paragraph is placed on the previous page.

If this paragraph still does not fit on the previous page, you can reduce the bottom margin (Tab Page layout> fields> Custom fields and set the bottom margin to a small value, such as 0.3 inches).


Advice: Sometimes a paragraph creates a new page because it has been set up that way. Try right-clicking in an empty paragraph and select paragraph Paragraph. On the tab Position on the page dialog box Paragraph uncheck From a new page, then click the button OK.

If nothing happens, follow the steps below.

As a last resort, you can remove the trailing blank page by saving the document as a PDF, leaving the last page.

Note: These actions only avoid blank pages if they are at the end of the document. Also, the option to specify a page range is only available in Windows versions _z0z_.

Page breaks tell Word where to start a new page. The reason for creating an unnecessary blank page in your document could be a forced page break.


The reason for creating a blank page in your document may be the section breaks "from next page", "from odd page" and "from even page". If empty page is at the end of the document and shows a section break, position the cursor before the section break and press the DELETE key.

Advice: To make it easier to find section breaks, try switching to Draft tab View.

Removing section breaks in the middle of a document can lead to formatting issues. In these cases, try replacing the section break with a break that does not create a new page. Here's how to do it:

    Double-click a section break.

    On the tab Layout dialog box Page settings click the dropdown Start and select Continuous.

    Click the button OK.

Seemingly the simplest task how to delete a blank page in Word can result in a huge note with all the nuances of sections, breaks and other invisible characters. The office suite seems simple only at first glance, until there is no need to make a high-quality document.

This problem usually haunts users who edit documents created by other people. Not because they are smarter, it's about invisible characters and many other nuances of the office suite - we will work through all these little things in today's post!

I looked at what people are writing on the internet on this issue - I'm shocked! See for yourself - to delete a page in Word, we need to delete text from it. Can you delete the entire document at once? - We will delete the document and the page in it for sure, take it into service!

Just a brain explosion! Of course, I understand that the author wanted to stretch the text as much as possible so that you linger longer on his site ... and the same method works - you can’t argue, but I want to tell you about the root of the problem of empty pages in Word and options for eliminating them.

If the poor and blank page is at the very end of the document, then you can try to delete it blindly. As a rule, there are a couple of extra paragraphs that we do not see (and they are). We poke the cursor anywhere in the document and press the key combination CTRL + END (so we will move to the real end of the document, and not visible to us) and press the "Backspace" button to remove all invisible characters on the page.

There may be several such paragraphs, and therefore you will have to press Backspace several times (but if you hollowed out the backspace button and returned to the beginning of the document, then it’s not about hidden paragraphs)

The reason for the appearance of blank pages in the Word is a witch hunt!

As I said at the very beginning of the note, the main problem with blank pages in Word is the lack of a complete picture of the document being edited. To get full control over the document, let's turn on the display of paragraph marks and other hidden formatting marks.

This functionality is present in any version of Word. (even in 2003 and older). Surely, many panicked by accidentally activating this mode ... what kind of previously unknown characters appeared in my document and what to do with them ?!

To enable showing hidden characters, do the following:

  1. In the Microsoft Word ribbon, go to the "Home" tab and look for the "¶" button (show all signs) or use hotkeys "CTRL + *". A lot of people recommend CTRL + SHIFT + 8 because SHIFT + 8 gives an asterisk… it's a bit counter-intuitive (unless you have a laptop with a truncated keyboard), it is convenient to press the asterisk on the numeric keypad - all missing characters are typed exclusively from the numeric keypad.
  2. After activating this crazy mode, all paragraphs will be marked with a “¶” sign and they are easy to identify on the page and therefore figure out how to delete a blank page in Word!

I decided to copy part of the note to word document, selected a fragment and inserted it on the page ... and at the end another empty paragraph was added - if it were on another page, you would never see it without activating the view of all characters

Invisible (blank) paragraphs

Quite often, there are extra paragraphs on an empty page - therefore, the page is not empty and it is logical that it does not disappear. You already know that you can activate the display of hidden paragraphs by clicking the "¶" button on the Office Options ribbon. Just select the extra paragraphs and delete them with the "Delete" button (well, or in any other way you know)

If the document really interfered with extra paragraphs, then after deleting them, the extra page will disappear.

The all-time leader after empty paragraphs in the reasons for the appearance of a blank page are forced breaks that users manually added to the page. As usual, we turn on the display of hidden signs and symbols and see this very page break - delete it and rejoice that we deleted the empty page in the Word!

A blank page can also be inside the document itself due to the set break. Similarly, we considered the situation with - sections and breaks are also to blame

Let's move on to the most interesting part of the note - these are the sections! If you are just learning MS WORD, then for sure this reason is incomprehensible to you and irritates you the most.

Sections are used for different page design (numbering, headers, footers, frames and other settings are individual for each of the sections)

When you set a section break, you have three options to choose from:

  1. From an even page;
  2. From an odd page;
  3. From next page;

Now imagine the situation - you finished the document, made a conclusion and, out of habit, completed the section by clicking “From the next page” ... here you have a new empty section at the end of the document. And as you already understood, a section in a Word can only be deleted by turning on the display of hidden characters and paragraphs.

Enable showing hidden characters and remove section break (do not forget that DELETE deletes to the right of the cursor, and backspace to the left)

I want to draw attention to one very important point. If there is a blank page at the end of the document, this nuance can be neglected! See what comes out - if a blank page is in the middle of the document, then by removing the section break, we risk resetting all the stylistic settings of the next section (this is both numbering and frames ...) because they will merge.

For such a situation, it would be correct to change the break type to “Break on the current page”, which I write about in addition to this paragraph.

The break on the current page is the solution to our problem

To delete an empty page in a Word, change the break type on the page:

  1. We poke the cursor in the place immediately after the break of the section that bothers us;
  2. On the tab "Layout" (Page layout) click "Page Setup" (great to hide it?)

  1. On the "Paper Source" tab in the "Start Section" section, change the parameter to "On the current page" and do not forget to click "OK"

After all this, the blank page will be deleted. In general, there is nothing difficult in understanding how section breaks work and why they exist at all. It is worth noting that when creating a document yourself, such situations practically do not arise - all because of different levels user knowledge of the office suite

Table in document

What's wrong with the table? - After the table, there is always an empty paragraph, which you cannot delete in any way by all the methods listed above (otherwise you think why I put it in a separate paragraph ...)

If the table border fits exactly to the end of the page frame, then this invisible paragraph will go to the next page and will not allow it to be deleted - I specifically showed this in the picture below!

If you do not see the hidden paragraph, then on the Home tab you forgot to activate the view mode for all characters "¶"

Unfortunately, it is impossible to simply select and delete such a paragraph - a different approach and trick are needed here:

  1. Select this same paragraph symbol (¶) and right-click on the item “Font ...” (if you don’t have the skill to select this stupid sign, you can use the CTRL + D combination)

  1. Check the "Hidden" checkbox and do not forget to click "ok".

Nothing has changed and there is also a blank page with a blank paragraph after the table? - This is because you need to remove the display of hidden characters ... on the "Home" tab, deactivate the "¶" mode and the blank page after the table will disappear.

In this way, we were able to delete a blank page in the Word after the table - nothing complicated!

What is the result?

To summarize - we looked at several ways to delete a blank page in Word. I think you already understood that there is no text - there is no page ... however, there are nuances with sections and paragraphs that interfere with the simple perception of the content of the document (but this is until you read the note) and understanding how it works - it becomes very easy to remove the page!