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Very often, when downloading MS Word documents from the Internet, you come across those in which there are empty, superfluous and unnecessary (not of interest) pages. And novice users sometimes have problems when working with this text editor, because they do not know how to how to remove empty or extra page in Word. They also cause difficulties with page break removal.
Remove unwanted page in Word document 2003, 2007, 2010
It doesn't matter which version of Word you use, be it 2003, 2007, 2010 or even 2013. The solution is universal everywhere.
In order to remove an empty or extra page in Word, you should:
Please note that you can delete a page (or page section) without enabling / disabling the display of invisible characters. It just makes the job easier.
To view line breaks, there is an alternative to the ¶ button. You can go to section "View" and activate the mode "Structure".
Video: how to remove an empty (page break), extra or unnecessary page in Word:
Correctly identifying the cause of the extra pages will help you quickly fix the problem. Regardless of the version Microsoft Word(2003-2016) there are 4 main reasons for the existence of blank pages at the end of a document:
- Extra problems or line breaks.
- Availability hidden characters.
- Move part of a table.
- The presence of a transparent white pattern(rarely).
Reasons for a blank page
If, when working with 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 printing a document, then the problem is in the printer settings (page between jobs).
Method 1: Remove Extra Spaces and Paragraphs
Most easy way- delete an extra page using the Backspace or Delete keys, designed to remove characters from the text.
Step 1. Go to last page document and place the cursor on it.
Step 2 Press the indicated keys until the unwanted 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 that there are 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 characters, you can see the reasons for the extra page and eliminate them.
Step 2 Highlight the extra empty paragraphs and delete them.
Step 3 In addition to empty paragraphs, the cause of the appearance of a blank page can be manually delivered forced break page or section break.
To delete it, place the cursor in front of the break and press the Delete character key.
Method 3: Edit the table
If you failed to remove the page using the two previous methods, you probably have a table at the end of the document. In Word, after each table there is an empty paragraph, and if the table reaches the end of the page, then the paragraph is transferred to the next one. You can't just remove that character, which represents an empty paragraph. In order to remove an empty 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 transitions to new lines.
How to delete the first page in Word
To remove the cover page in latest versions Microsoft Word, you must complete the following 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 prior to 2007 Title page does not differ from all other pages in the document, so similar methods are used to remove it.
How to delete a page in the middle of a document
The appearance of an unnecessary blank page in the middle of a Word document is usually associated with the presence of a section break. This function rarely used in practice and mostly added to the document by accident during editing.
Method 1: Remove the section break (method 1)
Extra page in the middle text document appears usually due to the setting of a section break. It is removed using the following steps.
Step 1. Position the cursor in front of the break.
Step 2 Press the Delete key.
Note: If you remove a blank page from the middle of a document that results from a section break, formatting may be messed up after the break is removed. If you need formatting after this page that differs from what was set before this page, then leave a section break. Otherwise, when you delete 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 to "no break".
Now you know how to remove a page in Word. The above tips can be applied in all versions of Microsoft Word.
How to delete a blank page in Word - instructions with animation updated: July 11, 2017 by: Scientific Articles.Ru
Quote from Vladimir_Shilnikov
Very often, when downloading MS Word documents from the Internet, you come across those in which there are empty, superfluous and unnecessary (not of interest) pages. And novice users sometimes have problems when working with this text editor, because they do not know how to how to delete a blank or extra page in Word. They also cause difficulties with page break removal.
Remove unwanted page in Word document 2003, 2007, 2010
It doesn't matter which version of Word you use, be it 2003, 2007, 2010 or even 2013. The solution is universal everywhere.
In order to remove an empty or extra page in Word, you should:
Please note that you can delete a page (or page section) without enabling / disabling the display of invisible characters. It just makes the job easier.
To view line breaks, there is an alternative to the ¶ button. You can go to section "View" and activate the mode "Structure".
Video: how to remove an empty (page break), extra or unnecessary page in Word:
Blank pages in Word can occur both in the middle of a document and at its end. They are unacceptable in official electronic documentation, and besides, they cause great discomfort when printing a document. In fact, extra sheets appear for a reason, but for very specific reasons. Let's take a closer look at the points, how the problem appears, and how to get rid of it.
An extra page is the result of extra characters
Unnecessary pages can appear both at the end and in the middle of the document, but most often they appear after the end of the text. The reason is that in the course of typing, paragraphs, indents or spaces were created that ended up at the very bottom of the text.Solution 1:
- Place the cursor at the very end of the text (not in its visible part, namely at the end of the entire text). You can use a very convenient combination " ctrl+end».
- Click on " backspace» until all invisible paragraphs, lines, indents, and spaces have been removed. The cursor should be to the right of the very last (bottom) character in the text.
- Put the cursor in a position beyond which you do not need any characters or pages.
- Hold down (press and hold) the " Delete". All elements to the right will be deleted.
The second way is even safer than the previous one (using "Backspace"), since nothing needed in the text will be deleted.
Solution 3(If the unnecessary page is in the middle of the text):
- Place the cursor on the last character of the upper part of the document, above the extra sheet.
- Press "Delete" until all unnecessary elements in the text are deleted and the rest of the desired text is pulled up.
Blank page due to breaks
A page break cannot appear spontaneously. One way or another, it was inserted by someone who participated in the creation of the text. Sometimes this happens when you accidentally press the combination " Ctrl+Enter, which inserts a page break into the text.Solution: If a page break turned out to be the end of a document or occurred inside the text, it can be removed using the method described above - using the keys to erase characters. To be completely sure that the problem is in the inserted page break, you can turn on the display of non-printing characters (¶). The switch button for this mode is located on " Toolbars" or " Lente". It also works when you press Ctrl+Shift+8»:
When you click on this button and position the cursor at the place of the unnecessary page, you can see something like this:
Just erase the "page break" with the same " Delete»/« backspace» (respectively placing the cursor above or below the place where the text is separated).
A section break can result in an unnecessary sheet in one of three ways:
- from an odd page;
- from an even page;
- from next page.
There are also options for breaking the sections "On the current page" and "From a new column", but they do not lead to the problem in question.
The easiest option - breaking the section led to the emergence empty sheet at the very bottom of the text:
Solution: Turn on show mode non-printable characters Let's look at the problem area. If a section break is indicated there, go above and simply erase it, whatever it may be. Sometimes section breaks are not visible. You can try switching to mode « Draft” (under View on the Ribbon) to make section breaks visible.
Attention! In the case when an unnecessary sheet does not appear at the end, but inside the text, do not rush to simply delete the section break, as there is one caveat: the formatting below the deleted section break will be applied to the paragraph above. To solve the problem of an extra page, you will need to select a different type of section break, namely - " On the current page". This is done like this:
- Place the cursor below the section break.
- On the ribbon, open the Page Layout tab.
- In the Page Setup field, select the Paper Source tab.
- In the drop-down list to the right of the "Start section" line, select "On the current page":
In Word 2010, in the "Page Setup" field, open the "Breaks" pop-up menu and select "Current Page" in the "Section Breaks" tab.
After the described manipulations, the unnecessary page will disappear, and the formatting of the section will remain the same. Also read the instructions:
Blank page due to finished Word style
Preset style settings can be quite strange from a casual user's point of view. For example, a very large indent is automatically created before or after a certain piece of text. At the same time, it is impossible to make it smaller, because the characters between last characters there is no body text and the first characters of the text in a certain style.Solution:
Solution 1: Reduce the size of the text above the table, such as erasing extra separator lines, concatenating paragraphs, or ( last resort) slightly reduce the font size in any paragraph.
Solution 2(Make the paragraph at the end of the document hidden):
If you get too carried away with deleting text elements, you could accidentally erase what should have remained in final version edits. You can return deleted elements (text, tables, and so on) using the combination of undoing the last action " ctrl+z” or by clicking on the “Cancel” icon in the Word command bar (counterclockwise arrow).
Video Assistant
The video briefly and clearly shows how to remove an unnecessary sheet in Word:Eliminating blank pages in Word 2007 and 2010 is no different, since the tenth version of the text editor is a logical continuation and almost a complete copy of the seventh version. Therefore, all the described methods for solving the problem of an extra page are suitable for any version of Word and are almost identical.
Today we will talk about how in the text word editor 2010 remove blank page. It often happens that when typing or copying a document to your Personal Computer and opening it in your editor, the document looks different.
This is because your own Microsoft Office text editor is configured with different settings. And quite often it turns out that extra indents, blank pages and much more appear in the document.
To avoid such incidental moments, you can use the display of absolutely all elements of the document, and even spaces. This is activated via a button on the toolbar, very reminiscent of treble clef or the letter T and P vice versa.
To do this, in the "Home" menu in the document, with one mouse click, click on it:
After that, these characters will appear throughout the text. You should not worry about what they will be displayed and when printing. This is done so that you know for sure if you have put somewhere odd space, paragraph or whether there is an extra blank page in the text.
And so it turned out that they are. Now the question becomes, how to get rid of this empty page? Everything is very simple!
- Using the mouse cursor, select the entire area of the blank page
2. Press the key Delete. After that, the page will disappear, and all the text that was below it will move up.
The main thing is not to highlight too much, because with blank page you can remove some more information. If this happens, you should use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Z. This command will undo everything you did with your last step. Or just close the document without saving the changes in it, all the deleted and corrected information in the text editor will return back.