How to delete an unnecessary page in Word. How to delete a page in Word
Often, when pages are torn in documents, extra sheets appear - there is no information on them, nothing at all. That is why they should be removed - why waste extra paper when printing on a printer. Today we will tell you how to easily delete a blank page in Microsoft Word, and you will also learn how to delete a page with information without losing it. The main thing is that you read everything to the end, and if something is not clear, read the article again, because in large documents you may not notice how you deleted a page that, for example, you needed.
Removing a blank page in MS Word
First of all, let's go to the Home tab if you currently have another one open. There is one very useful tool here - the “Display all characters” button, thanks to which you will see all the characters you have typed - even spaces.Click on it once and the text will change beyond recognition. Do you see how many dots and different signs have appeared that were not there before?! The dots are spaces. If there are two or more dots in a row, it means there are too many spaces and this needs to be corrected. Arrows are Tab key presses. Blank pages are also displayed separately in the form of “Page Break” inscriptions. It is this gap that we must close!
In the screenshot above you can see the inscription “Page Break”, double-click on it with the left mouse button, after which it will be highlighted in black. There are then two scenarios leading to the removal of the blank page:
- Pressing the "Backspace" button;
- Pressing the “Delete” button.
Removing a non-blank page in Microsoft Word
We have learned to get rid of blank pages, but what to do with those that contain some information: text, diagram or picture? You can also delete non-blank pages, now we will teach you how to do this.Move the cursor to any part of the page that you want to quickly delete. We return to the “Home” tab, find the arrow on the right side that says “Select”, click on it and select “Select all” from the drop-down menu.
You can also go the other way, hold down the left mouse button and select the part of the text that should be deleted and then proceed according to the well-established scheme - click on one of the above-mentioned buttons!
Ready! Now you can delete not only blank pages in Word, but also pages with information.
Hello again! Today we will talk about such a seemingly simple topic as deleting pages in a Word document. Of course, this operation is unlikely to cause any particular difficulties for anyone. The only thing you need to consider is which page you want to delete - with or without text and where it is located - at the beginning, end or middle of the document. Word also has ways of working here that you probably don’t know about. We will consider these tricky moments today.
As usual, we will cover the topic using several simple examples in different versions of the program. At the end of the article there is a short video. So, let's study the material.
Deleting a page in Word 2010 in the middle of a document (with text)
If you have an unnecessary page of text that needs to be deleted, you can do it as follows. The first thing to do is place the cursor anywhere on the page to be deleted. After that, in the upper right corner of the document on the main panel we find the “find” button. A binocular icon is shown next to it. Click on it and in the drop-down menu click on the inscription “Go”.
A window will open in front of us in which the search object is selected. In our case, this is a page and it is the first one by default and is already selected.
Next to it there is only one field “Enter page number”. Here we type “\page”, and then press the “go” button. As a result, all text on the page will be highlighted. All that remains is to press the “DELETE” key and the page with this text will disappear.
In essence, this procedure is the removal of only unnecessary text, and not the page as such. After all, the text that comes after the one being deleted rises higher, replacing what was there before. Therefore, there is a much simpler way to delete pages in this way. Just select it by holding left. Click on all the text on the page and also press the “DELETE” button.
Removing the last blank page at the end of the document (with headers and footers)
If your document contains headers and footers, and there is a blank last page at the input of the work, then it is very easy to delete it. Place the cursor on the previous page and press the “DELETE” key, pressing it multiple times to remove the blank page. Before starting the operation, you can include non-printable characters to make it easier to navigate the pages being deleted.
How to remove an extra blank page at the beginning of a document in word 2010
The appearance of an extra blank page is most often associated with the use of breaks. We don’t see all this in the usual format. To display them, use a special button on the main panel. However, many people like to type with the non-printable characters feature turned on. So, let's turn on the visibility of these non-printable characters: ¶.
Then select them on the page to be deleted and press the Delete or BackSpace key. As a result, the page will be deleted.
Removing a blank page in word 2013 in the middle of a document
When deleting an unnecessary page in a Word document version 2013, you must enable the function of displaying non-printable characters. After this, place the cursor in the place where the last non-printable character is displayed before the page to be deleted. By pressing the Delete key several times we delete the unnecessary page.
You can also delete a page using the page break options. You can open them from the “Paragraph” tab on the main menu panel.
In the first tab, “Indents and Spacing,” large Before or After spacing values can be set. In the second tab “Page Position” you need to check the value of the “pagination” section. After checking the correctness of the settings and removing what is unnecessary, you can safely delete what you don’t need.
Removing the blank page in word 2007 at the end of the document
To remove the blank page at the end of the document, we will use a fairly simple action. Place the cursor at the end of the previous page and repeatedly press the “Delete” key to delete invisible lines. For convenience, we include these non-printing characters. Then you can select them all on the page to be deleted, and then simply press the Delete key. And at the end of the topic there is a short video on deleting pages in Word.
Here, in principle, are all the simple steps to remove unnecessary pages. Although everything is simple, you need to know some tricks. That's all for now.
Perhaps every user is familiar with the Word text editor. It is used to read, create and edit documents, and sometimes the simplest knowledge may not be enough to fully work with the program. Today we’ll talk about how to delete a page in Word. Let's figure out whether it is possible to remove an unnecessary sheet without harming the entire text.
Removing a blank page
When you need to eliminate an extra blank sheet that does not contain any valuable information, you need to use the following algorithm:
- Make a left click with the mouse anywhere on the extra page, this will set the cursor (a vertical line);
- in the “Home” section (at the top), look for a display of all signs and click on it (the combination Shift + Ctrl + 8 helps);
- Tab characters and spaces will appear on the monitor, which were not visible before. It is necessary to eliminate them from the empty page to automatically delete it. To do this, use the BackSpace button (if there is no such word on the keyboard, there will be a left arrow key, usually located above Enter).
How to delete a page in Word located at the end of a document
Sometimes a blank sheet is found at the very end of the file, although there are two, three or more of them. Such an object affects the size of the final file, makes it larger, and is also sent to print. For a thesis or course work, such a page is not needed at all.
Here you can use the first method: place the cursor at the bottom and click the BackSpace button so that it ends up at the end of the penultimate page.
In the event that the extra page is located at the very beginning (stands first), then we act in the same way - we remove unnecessary characters, after which all the text will move up.
How to delete an unnecessary document
Such knowledge may be needed if you opened a new document, wrote text, corrected it, copied it to another file, and this one has become redundant.
You can delete it by simply clicking on close - the cross in the top right corner. A notification will immediately pop up asking you to save the changes, click “No”.
When you plan to continue working with this file, and what you have written needs to be deleted, you should select everything using the Ctrl + A keys, and then press Del on the keyboard.
Removing the entire title page and footer
In Word releases, from version 2013, this is easy to do - change the old “title” to the new one. But in older versions of the program, you should first delete one page, and only then add a new one in its place:
- find the “Insert” section (located next to “Home”);
- in the “Pages” subsection there is the necessary button; if you click on it, a special menu will open;
- Under the templates there will be a link to eliminate the extra sheet.
Getting rid of the page with text
If you often work with this editor, you've probably encountered a situation where you needed to delete an area with pictures, text content, and other content. In such cases, you can use two methods.
Second sheet
For example, you have some kind of file, you need to erase the second page (slightly after it). You will need:
- place the cursor at the very beginning of the first line;
- scroll to the bottom of the document page;
- click on the keyboard layout Shift and hold it, making a left click with the mouse at the very end of the final line on the unnecessary sheet. This will highlight all the content (the background will change color).
This option is suitable for any versions of Word 2010, 2003 and 1997.
All you have to do is click Del or BackSpace to delete unnecessary data.
Some sheet in a large file
When working with a large text document with hundreds of pages, scrolling takes a long time. So the above method should not be used. There is a better option. The built-in Word search is useful for this. The combination Ctrl + H will help you open the window. You will immediately be taken to the “Replace” section, but we are interested in another one – “Go”, then enter the desired number in the “Find” subsection.
Do not close the open window. After moving to a specific sheet, in the line “Enter number...” write the command:
Click “Go” again to highlight the text.
After which you can close the dialog by clicking on the cross on the right side. We remove the entire selected part in the middle of the document using the BackSpace or Del buttons.
How to delete a page in a Word document? It's actually easy to do. For beginners, this article will be especially useful. You can watch the training video, it will be even clearer.
Cutting unnecessary sheets from a document is easy. It's a little more difficult to deal with blank pages that suddenly appear in the middle or end. Let's figure out how to delete a page in Word - we'll check all the methods, from simple ones to manipulations with hidden characters.
The easiest way to delete an unnecessary page is by using 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 extra 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 the cursor at the beginning of the page. Hold down the left mouse button and check the cursor to the end of the fragment that should be deleted.
- Place the 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. Any text that appears between the two marks will be highlighted.
To erase the selected part, press Backspace or Delete. In principle, you can do without highlighting by erasing the letters one by one using the same keys.
This will take a little more time, but will lead to a similar result - extra words and sentences will be thrown out of the text, as if they were never there.
Removing a blank sheet
Why does a blank sheet appear? No, this is not an invitation from Word 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 like you have a blank slate. But if you click on this icon on the top panel, you can find all the non-printing characters. .
Note: if there are no extra sheets in the document, and they only appear when printing, check your printer settings. On some models, you can set the options to print a separator page between different jobs.
This is a convenient feature that allows you to quickly separate different documents if they are printed in one batch. But if you don’t know about its existence, you will probably be surprised to see a blank sheet, for some reason sent 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 scrolling down the screen. Make sure your cursor is at the very end of the document and press Backspace. This will be enough if the blank sheet appears due to extra paragraph marks or an accidentally inserted break.
Determining the cause
If simply pressing Backspace at the end of a document doesn't solve the problem, try to pinpoint the cause. To do this, turn on the display of non-printable characters and see what is happening on the blank page. This can be done on the “Home” tab - this is relevant 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 caused by inserting a break, place your mouse cursor directly in front of it and press Delete. The operation is similar on Mac and Word Online.
If a blank page appears after a table inserted into a document, then it’s all about the blank paragraph mark, which is added by default.
You won't be able to delete it, but you can hide it.
If you do everything right, the blank sheet will definitely disappear along with the thoughts that you cannot cope with a simple text editing operation in Word.
If a document has an extra blank page, it may contain blank paragraphs, manually inserted page breaks, or section breaks. There are different ways to get rid of a blank page. The first step is to find out why this blank page appeared.
Notes:
Easy way
If the extra blank page is at the end of the document, try moving to the end of the document using the CTRL+END keys and pressing the BACKSPACE key. If a blank page is caused by extra paragraph marks or an accidental manually added page break, it can be quickly removed using this method.
Note: To delete multiple blank paragraphs, you will have to press the BACKSPACE key several 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 solve this problem.
To get rid of unwanted pages, follow the steps below.
To see what's causing the blank page, turn on paragraph marks.
By turning on the display of paragraph marks, you can see the reason for the appearance of a blank page in the document.
Extra paragraphs
If there are extra blank paragraphs at the end of the document, you will see paragraph marks (¶) on the blank page. Select them and delete them by pressing the DELETE key.
Force page break
If the blank page is due to a manually added page break, place the cursor in front of the page break and press DELETE to remove it.
The same reason very often leads to the appearance of an extra blank page in the middle of the document.
The reason for creating a new page in Word may be breaks in the "from next page", "from odd page" and "from even page" sections. If the blank page is at the end of the document and a section break is shown, place the cursor in front of the section break and press DELETE to remove it. This should remove the blank page.
Note: If you don't see section breaks, try opening a tab View on the ribbon and switch to draft mode.
Attention: If a section break results in a blank page in the middle of a document, removing the section break may break the formatting. If you want document content after this period to have different formatting, leave a section break. If you remove a section break, the formatting of the pages after the break will be applied to the pages before it. Although you can change the type of section break, an "on current page" break will allow you to preserve the changed formatting without adding a blank page.
To convert a section break to an "on current page" break, do the following:
The blank page should be removed without affecting the formatting.
Table at the end of the document
If you still can't 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 all the way to the end of it. In Word, an empty paragraph must be indicated after the table, and when the table reaches the end of the page, it is moved to the next page. You will not be able to remove this blank paragraph mark.
Note: Many resume templates are formatted as full-page tables.
The easiest way to solve 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.
Turn off the display of paragraph marks by clicking the button 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 within 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 click the button Show all non-printable characters(¶) or press the +8 keys.
Blank paragraph marks
If you find empty paragraph marks (¶), select them with the mouse and delete them.
Manually added page breaks
To remove a manually inserted page break, select it with the mouse and press the DELETE key. You can also click the left margin next to the page break to select it and press DELETE.
Section breaks
To delete a section break, select it with the 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 Word desktop app, you can use the command Open in Word to open the document and remove section breaks.
Its arsenal contains several hundred different operations for working with both text 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 OLE technology, which allows you to embed text fragments, images, tables, etc., made using various Windows applications, into a file
- the presence 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. Using MS Word, you can not only professionally design layouts, but also prepare them for subsequent sending to the printing house.
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Let's get started: create a page
As a rule, it is customary to start any business with a new leaf. 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 needs to be placed between existing blocks, but on a separate page, or the beginning of a section or chapter requires moving to a new sheet.
If you want to create a new document, you must hover over the Microsoft logo and, by 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), it will be enough to place the cursor in the right place and press the “CTRL + ENTER” combination on the keyboard or in the “Insert” submenu, sequentially select “Page”, “Page Break” . 
To insert a blank page in Word between two filled ones, you need to place the cursor at the end of the first page and in the “Insert” submenu, sequentially select “Page”, “Blank Page”. 
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Getting rid of unnecessary or empty pages
If there is only one page in the newly created document, and the information contained on it does not require saving, to delete it will be enough to select all the text and click “Delete” or “BackSpace” (the same method is suitable for deleting any individual non-empty page) or simply quit with the program, answering negatively to the question about saving.
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 the 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 Word:
- By pressing the “CTRL+END” combination, move to the end of the document and hold down the “Backspace” key until the extra page disappears.
- In the “Home” submenu, find and click on the “¶” symbol. This will display all non-printing characters (such as spaces).
Afterwards, it will be enough to either remove spaces from, as it turns out, a non-empty page, or on the previous sheet before the empty one, double-click with the left mouse button on “Page Break” and press one of the keys, “Delete” or “Backspace”.
“Access denied” or what to do when text is protected from editing
To make changes to a document that is protected from editing using 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 a password by selecting “Disable protection.”
After this, access to editing will be open.
If it is not possible to find out the password, you can take a workaround.
In the window that appears, you must specify a new document name and select the “Web Page” extension. The document is then closed.
The new file is opened using notepad. You can do this by right-clicking on it once and selecting “Open with” from the drop-down menu, selecting Notepad as your preferred program.
After that, in the document that opens, find the line “w:nprotectPassword>any text” and delete it. Next you need to save the changes and close the program.
Open the file again 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 how computer programs work is not always enough to get out of a difficult situation on their own, and some often have the question of how to delete a page in 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 without damaging the entire text, let’s look at a few simple methods.
Method number 1. Delete unnecessary new document
In the case when a document has just been created, and all the typed information is no longer needed (copied or used, or requires correction), deleting all its contents is very simple. To do this, just close the file and refuse to save 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 the document has only one sheet.
Method No. 2. Removing a blank sheet
To remove a blank page, you will need to do the following:
- Place the cursor at the desired location;
- Select the icon for displaying all characters on the panel of Word 2007 (and any other version) or simply press “Ctrl”, “Shift” and “8” at the same time.
Now on the sheet in the middle of the document, instead of a blank space, the icons for a transition paragraph, headers and footers and spaces will appear. They all take up space, but can be easily removed by pressing the BackSpace key one by one, or by selecting all invisible characters at once.
By clearing a blank sheet of characters, they achieve its automatic removal.
Method No. 3. Removing the last blank sheet
Sometimes at the end of the text you can notice the last blank sheet or even several. This increases the printer's print queue and file size, and therefore requires removal. To quickly fix the problem, you don’t even need to include special characters.
You just need to place the cursor at the end of the last sheet and press BackSpace until it and all its formatting are deleted.
Method No. 4. Deleting a page with text
If you need to delete not an empty part of a document, but a part of a document filled with text, images or other visible inserts, there are two main options for resolving the issue.
Deletion occurs using a cursor or special Word commands - each method has advantages for its own situation.
Second page
Let's assume that there is a document whose second sheet needs to be deleted.
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;
- Place the cursor on the field opposite the first line and highlight it;
- Use the mouse wheel to move 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 part of the document to be deleted. As a result, all text on the sheet will be selected.
Now you can erase it, leaving the rest of the document untouched and freeing up space from 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 you need to save only a few paragraphs from the entire text and delete the main volume, it is easier and faster to copy the necessary information into a new document.
Page inside a large document
If you have to delete not the first or second, but, for example, the 120th or even the 532nd page, searching for them 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 cleaned. To do this, simultaneously press the “Ctrl” and “F” keys on the keyboard, which open the search and replace window.
- Next, select the “Go” tab and enter the page number into it.
- All that now remains to be done to clear it 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 selecting with commands, some users will find it more convenient and faster to mark the text to be deleted with the mouse - in this case, you should use only the first part of the method to find the desired place.
If you need to add articles on the topic of MS Word to the site, so be it. The other day I optimized TTN printable forms for Excel and Word. Since the TTN in Excel has many columns, I recommend using a printable form in Word for 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 collected all the ways to remove the last sheet in a text document. So, how to delete a blank sheet in Word?
Deliberately adding a blank sheet is done simply - add a page break - press Ctrl + Enter. Often a blank sheet is added by pressing the Enter key many times, i.e. adding paragraphs to the page.
We will discuss how to remove a blank sheet below:
First, let's figure out how the empty sheet was added. Add a display of invisible characters to your worksheet. Go to the Home tab - Paragraph section - Show all characters button:
When calling the function, even non-printable characters will be displayed. If a blank sheet is added with paragraph marks, it will look like this:
Delete unnecessary characters and the sheet will also be deleted.
Clean it up.
But the blank sheet is often not cleared by simply deleting it? The problem occurs if there is a blank sheet left at the end.
How to delete the last page in Word?
When the Delete and Backspace buttons to clear the last sheet do not work, 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 5.
Second way— play with the margins of the document, if in this case you reduce the top or bottom margin (to 0.5), then the TTN table will fit on two pages. This can be done through Preview - the Page Settings window.
Third way— when printing, indicate that you only need to print 2 sheets.
Other ways to remove the last sheet in Word
Apparently the example is a small mistake by the developers and there is no standard function for deleting the last sheet. But I recommend several additional methods. Methods do not always help.
- Try the Page Fitting function, in versions higher than 2010 - Shrink per page. It is located: Preview - Shorten 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 page that appears with Backspace, click delete again and our problem page should disappear too.
- Select the last paragraph and right-click the menu to open the Font dialog box. Check Hidden to hide the paragraph.
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