In the dialog box, type '\page' and hit the “Enter” key, which will highlight the whole page.Press Ctrl + G for Windows, or Option + Command + G on a Mac.Open the document in Word and go to the page you want to delete.
#CAN YOU DELETE PAGES ON MICROSOFT WORD HOW TO#
How To Delete a Page in a Word File Manually
#CAN YOU DELETE PAGES ON MICROSOFT WORD MANUAL#
In this article, we'll illustrate the manual method, as well as the quick way to delete a page in a Word document.
The process to delete a page is rather tedious-you have to locate the page, highlight the whole thing, and press the “Delete” button to remove the designated page. You need to check the direct paragraph or style to find the cause.ĭirect paragraph formatting can override the style setting.Unlike other Microsoft-related offsprings such as PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets, you can’t delete a page in a Word file quickly, with just one click. There’s no text to explain that the dotted line is a page break, let alone what’s causing the page break. Whether it’s a manual paragraph setting or style setting, the page break appears as finely dotted line when Show All is on. Most commonly, high-level Heading styles might have a page break such as Heading 1 or Heading 2. Under Modify Style | Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks. Just like in paragraph settings, any style can have the ‘Page break before’ setting on. This type of page break isn’t obvious with Show All on, but it can appear in the same way as the next type of page break, in a Style. It’s in the Paragraph settings | Line and Page Breaks. With Show All they appear clearly in the document.Īny paragraph can have a manual ‘Page Break before’ setting enabled. All the document break options are at Layout | Breaks. There are also Word section breaks that include a page break. With Show All on, you can see the Page Break then select and delete it. Pressing Ctrl + Enter will add a page break. It’s possible to force a Page Break in Word, for example to start a new chapter. See Preventing blank page after Table in Word for details. If you have a blank page after a table, the fix is a little more complicated. Now you can see more of the core document on the screen. It shows spaces, tabs, Line Breaks, Paragraph marks and more.Īnother useful trick is to change Page View to remove the header, footer, margins and gaps between pages. Show All is incredibly useful when you’re trying to figure out why some part of a document looks the way it does. It’s the same symbol that Word uses to mark the end of a paragraph.īack in the dim past of Word, Show All was hidden from the default toolbars but Microsoft finally relented and made it more obvious to everyone. Look for the Pilcrow symbol at Home | Paragraph. This reveals the invisible characters and breaks in the document. The rest of these tips relies on the trick that all Word users should know, the Show All button. Press Ctrl + End to move the Word cursor to the very end of the document then press Backspace to remove unwanted and unseen characters back to the end of the text. It can simply be some extra paragraph marks at the end of a document. There are also cases of a mystery blank page in the middle of a document at the end of a section or chapter. The most common type of extra page is at the end of a document. It’s a simple question – How can I delete a blank page in Microsoft Word? The answer isn’t so simple because there are many reasons for Word to add another page and various tricks to getting rid of them.
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