That on the site you need to add articles on the topic of MS Word, so be it. The other day I optimized the TTN printable forms for Excel and Word. Since in Excel TTN has many columns, I recommend using a printable form in Word for a one-time filling. The file consists of two filled pages, the third sheet is empty and it was not possible to delete it using standard methods. After reading the Internet, I have collected all the ways to remove the last sheet in a text document. So how to delete a blank sheet in Word?
Adding a blank sheet on purpose is easy - add a page break - press Ctrl + Enter. Often, an empty sheet is added by pressing the Enter key many times, i.e. by adding paragraphs to the page.
We will analyze how to remove an empty sheet below:
First, let's figure out how the blank sheet was added. Add invisible symbols to the sheet. Go to the Home tab - Paragraph section - Show all characters button:
Even unprintable characters will be displayed when the function is called. If a blank sheet is added with paragraph marks, then it will look like this:
Remove unnecessary characters - the sheet will also be removed.
Clean it up.
But a blank sheet is often not cleared by a simple removal? The problem arises if a blank sheet is left at the end.
How to delete the last page in Word?
When the Delete and Backspace buttons do not work to clear the last sheet, you have to use tricks.
The easiest way to remove the last sheet in Word is to go to the last paragraph and make the font as small as possible, for example 5.
Second way- play with the margins of the document, if in this case you reduce the top or bottom margin (up to 0.5), then the TTN table will fit into two pages. This can be done through the Preview - Page Setup window.
The third way- when printing, indicate that you only need to print 2 sheets.
Other ways to clear the last sheet in Word
Apparently an example is a small mistake of the developers and there is no standard function for deleting the last sheet. But I advise a few additional ways. Methods do not always help.
- Try the Fitting to Pages feature, in versions above 2010 - Shrink to Page. It is located: Preview - Shrink to Page.
- In versions of the editor from 2007, go to the menu Insert - Pages - Blank page, click on the button and another blank page appears. Delete the appeared page with Backspace, click again to delete and our problem page should disappear as well.
- Select the last paragraph and right-click on the menu to open the Font dialog box. Check Hidden to hide the paragraph.
Remove blank sheet when printing in Excel
If, when printing tables in Excel, after a filled sheet, a blank page is obtained, then you need to correctly configure the print area. Read how to do this in our.
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Removing blank and extra pages
To delete a page in Word 2010, it is enough to remove all the symbols that are on it. Even if you see a blank sheet in front of you, there may be hidden formatting marks.
If at the end of the Word document you see an extra blank page, then do the same with it - display hidden symbols and delete them all.
If the sheet you want to delete contains text, it is 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 quick selection method:
- Place the cursor at the beginning of a piece of text.
- Hold down the "Shift" key.
- 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 have appeared over the years.
How to remove page numbers in Word
Adding and removing numbering in Word 2010 is simplified as much as possible - all these procedures are performed by pressing one button. The procedure will be as follows:
There is an easier way:
- Double-click the left button on the page number. A header and footer window will open.
- Highlight a number.
- Click "Delete".
Conclusion
Deleting sheets is sometimes accompanied by a change in document formatting. The user just accidentally removes the signs that are responsible for how the text is placed on the sheet. This rarely happens, but if it happens, then it becomes quite problematic to correct the defect. The easiest way out is to copy the desired fragment and paste it into a new document.
Cutting out unwanted sheets from your document is easy. It's a little harder to deal with blank pages that suddenly appear in the middle or end. Let's figure out how to delete a page in the Word - we'll 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 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 the page 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. The page just 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 the 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 a separator page to be printed 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 surely 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. The process is similar on Mac and Word Online.
If a blank page appears after the table inserted into the document, then the whole point is in the empty paragraph mark, which is added by default.
You won't be able to delete it, but you will be able to hide it.
If you do everything right, 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 might 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 figure 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 BACKSPACE. 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 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 the steps below.
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, 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 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 your document, formatting may be lost when the break is removed. 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 "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 the end of it. 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 empty 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 hidden to 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 and not individual blank pages in it, open Finder, find the file you want, and drag it to the trash can. Items are removed permanently 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. Alternatively, you can 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 Word to 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
- the 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 do the layout of 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 existing blocks, but on a separate page, or a transition to a new sheet requires the beginning of a section or chapter.
If you need to create a new document, you must hover over the Microsoft logo and, activating the drop-down menu, select the "New" item.
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 position the cursor in the desired place and press the combination "CTRL + ENTER" on the keyboard or in the "Insert" submenu, sequentially select "Page", "Page break" ... 
To insert a blank page in a Word between two filled ones, you need to position the cursor at the end of the first page and in the "Insert" submenu, select "Page", "Blank page" in sequence. 
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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 individual 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 the 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 the text on the sheet will be instantly selected, and to delete it, you just need to press "Delete" or "Backspace" on the keyboard.
Quite often a blank page appears at the end of the document, which not only does not carry any information, but also increases the overall weight of the file. How to delete a page in Word 2007?
➤ Secrets: A very effective way quickly and easily.
There can 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 the, as it turned out, non-empty page, or on the previous sheet in front of the empty one, double-click the left mouse button on "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 choosing the item in the drop-down menu "Open with", choosing Notepad as the preferred program.
After that, in the opened document, find the line "w: nprotectPassword> any text" and delete it. Next, you need to save the changes and close the program.
Reopen the file using MS Word and, 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 people 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 has just been created, and all the information typed in is no longer needed (copied or used, or requires correction), it is very easy to delete all its contents. To do this, it is enough to 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 will need to do the following:
- Place the cursor at the desired location;
- Select the icon for displaying all characters in the Word 2007 panel (and any other version), or simply 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 empty space. 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.
Clearing a blank sheet of signs, they seek to remove it automatically.
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 the text on the sheet will be selected.
Now you can erase it, leaving the rest of the document intact and freeing up space of 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 may 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.
- Next, 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 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, you should use only the first part of the method to find the desired location.
Correct determination of the cause of the extra pages will help to quickly fix the problem. Regardless of the version of Microsoft Word (2003-2016), there are 4 main reasons for the existence of blank pages at the end of the document:
- Unnecessary problems or line breaks.
- The presence of hidden symbols.
- Transfer of part of the table.
- The presence of a transparent or white pattern (rare).
Reasons for a blank page
If, while working on a document during editing, pages appear that do not contain text, most likely there are page breaks or empty paragraphs on it.
Note: If a blank page appears only when you print a document, then the matter is in the printer settings (page between jobs).
Method 1. Removing extra spaces and paragraphs
The easiest way is to delete the extra page using the Backspace or Delete keys, designed to remove characters from the text.
Step 1. Go to the last page of the document and place the cursor on it.
Step 2. Press the indicated keys until the unnecessary page disappears.
Step 3... If there are a lot of empty paragraphs on the page, then the key will have to be pressed several times.
Method 2. Remove hidden characters
Since the appearance of a blank page usually means the presence of hidden characters on it, in order to remove them, you must make them visible.
Step 1. You need to click on the "non-printable characters" icon, which is located on the main tab. By enabling the display of hidden symbols, you can see the causes of the extra page and eliminate them.
Step 2. Select the extra blank paragraphs and delete them.
Step 3. In addition to blank paragraphs, a manually set forced page break or section break can cause a blank page to appear.
To delete it, place the cursor in front of the break and press the Delete character key - Delete.
Method 3. Edit the table
If you were unable to delete the page using the previous two methods, you probably have a table at the end of your document. In Word, after each table, there is a blank paragraph, and if the table reaches the end of the page, then the paragraph is wrapped to the next. You can't just delete this empty paragraph character. In order to remove a blank sheet, you need to make this paragraph hidden.
Step 1. Show hidden spaces.
Step 2. If the table forms a space on the next page, then reduce the line spacing of the table cells or the font, remove unnecessary line breaks.
How to delete the first page in Word
To remove the cover page in the latest versions of Microsoft Word, you need to follow these steps.
Step 1. Go to the "Insert" tab.
Step 2. Select the "Title Page" menu.
Step 3. Specify the appropriate value - "Delete the current cover page".
In versions earlier than 2007, the title page is the same as any other page in the document, so you use similar methods to remove it.
How to delete a page in the middle of a document
An unnecessary blank page in the middle of a Word document is usually associated with a section break. This function is rarely used in practice and is mostly added to the document accidentally during editing.
Method 1. Remove the section break (method 1)
An extra page in the middle of a text document appears usually due to the setting of a section break. It is removed using the following actions.
Step 1. Position the cursor in front of the break.
Step 2. Press the Delete key.
Note: If you delete a blank page from the middle of a document that is a result of a section break, the formatting may deteriorate after the break is removed. If you need formatting after this page that differs from what was installed before this page, then leave a section break. Otherwise, when you remove a break, the formatting will automatically become the same throughout the document - the same as it was in the text located before the break.
Method 2. Remove the section break (method 2)
Step 1. Go to the "Layout" tab.
Step 2. Replace break type - set "no break".
Now you know how to remove a page in the Word. The listed tips can be applied in all versions of Microsoft Word.
How to delete a blank page in Word - instructions with animation updated: February 15, 2019 by the author: Scientific Articles.Ru
Hello everyone! Today we will look at how to delete a page in Word. It would seem that it is easy to do this by pressing a couple of keys on the keyboard, but as practice shows, many users faced with this problem cannot solve it on their own. If you find yourself in such a situation and your Microsoft Word text document contains a blank page, then it means there are hidden paragraphs or breaks on it that the user has set manually. When editing a document, it is recommended to delete such pages, since they will then appear in a paper document printed on a printer.
If you have recently started working at Microsoft Office, then consider the simplest method. To delete an unnecessary page in the Word, select all or part of the text on the page and press the "Delete" or "Backspace" button on the keyboard.
As a rule, the page should disappear along with the text if nothing else remains on it. Since this method is the simplest, you may have already tried it.
If the text document contains a blank page, most often at the end, and it is not deleted automatically, then we go down to the very bottom by pressing the key combination "Ctrl + End", and then press the "Backspace" key to delete all hidden information. It is most likely that such a page will be deleted if it contains hidden paragraphs or breaks that the user accidentally inserted.
Note! Often, a blank page contains several blank paragraphs and in order to delete them, you need to press the "Backspace" key several times.
If, after the performed manipulations, the blank page has not gone anywhere, then most likely the problem lies elsewhere and in order to solve it we read the information below.
Why blank pages appear and how to remove them in Word
It's not always clear why a blank page appears in a Word text document. To understand this, you need to enable the display of paragraph symbols.
By the way, this function is enabled in all versions of Microsoft Word, with its help we can figure out how to delete a page in Word.
To do this, we perform the following actions:
Blank paragraphs
As a rule, such empty paragraphs prevent you from deleting pages. Since they are now marked, we select our symbols "¶" and press the "Delete" button. 
If hidden paragraphs took place, then after deleting them, the unnecessary page will also be deleted.
A forced page break has been set.
Very often, blank pages appear due to forced breaks, which are manually added by the user. To delete it, place the mouse cursor in front of the page break and press the "Delete" key. 
Note! Very often, a blank page appears in the middle of a document due to incorrectly set breaks. Therefore, pay attention at the moment.
Partition break is set.
Another important point that can cause a blank page in the document is the established section break. Such a gap can be established in three ways:
- From an even page;
- From an odd page;
- From the next page;
If a blank page is at the very end of your document, then in order to delete it, you need to place the mouse cursor in front of the section break and press the "Delete" key.
Note! There are times when users do not see where the page break is set. In this case, you need to open the "View" tab in the Word menu bar and switch to draft mode.
I would also like to draw your attention to the case when, after removing page breaks, the formatting of the document gets lost.
In this case, if you need the text formatting not to change after the break, then it is not recommended to remove such a break. Because if you delete a section break, then the formatting that was applied after this section break will be applied to the text that is located above this section break.
To get out of this situation, you need to set the type of break: "Break on the current page" (how to do it, read below), thereby you will preserve the text formatting and not add a blank page.
Set the break type: "Break on the current page"
In order to change the type of break on a page of a Microsoft Word document, do the following:
After the done settings, the blank page will be deleted. As you can see, in order to solve the problem of how to delete a page in Word, you do not need to have a lot of knowledge. If the problem is still not resolved, I recommend that you pay attention to one more point.
Installed a table.
If the above methods did not help you, and there is a blank page in your text document, then pay attention to whether there is a table in front of the blank page. The fact is that if a table is located on the penultimate page of the document and reaches the very edge of the sheet, then a blank page will necessarily appear after it. This is due to the fact that after the table there must be an empty paragraph, and since the table reaches the edge of the page, the paragraph is transferred to the next sheet. 
