If a page suddenly appears in your text document on which there are no printed characters or other objects, then most likely you have previously left blank paragraphs or gaps between pages on it. In some cases, having a blank sheet in Word is not always a consequence of your negligence. For example, your printer's specific settings may cause it to print a page that acts as a separator between pieces of text and is usually blank.
In any case, you need to get rid of unfilled sheets. Fortunately, Word software provides its users with several ways in which you can solve the problem facing you without unnecessary problems.
In case the empty the sheet is located at the very end file that belongs to you, you can remove it using the following steps:
First, you will need to find the reason why blank sheets are not disappearing from your file. The easiest way to do this is if you include hidden characters. Hidden characters appear in the text after doing the following:
Once you've completed the steps above, you can move on to identifying the reason why blank sheets were added to your file.
If blank pages have been added to your Word document due to extra paragraphs, then there is no need to worry as they can be removed very easily. To do this you will need highlight special characters, which symbolize paragraphs, and remove them by clicking Delete.
If the reason for the appearance of a blank sheet in Word is page break, then you can remove it in no more than five to ten seconds using the following algorithm of actions:
Often, the cause of blank pages in the middle of your document is due to unnecessary page breaks.
Section breaks are sometimes not visible in Word when you turn on the option to show hidden characters. To guaranteed to see them, if they are present in your document, do the following:
If you find a page at the end of a document without printable characters, but with section break, then you can delete it as follows: before the break you will need to place your cursor and then click on Delete. After completing these steps, your goal will be achieved.
However, the situation becomes more complicated if you find blank sheet with a section break in the middle of the document. Of course, you can remove the page as described in the paragraph above, but keep in mind that eliminating the section break will cause the editing settings of the printed characters below the break to be propagated to the text above the section break. However, if it is important for you to preserve the formatting settings and at the same time eliminate the blank page, then you can replace the current break on the sheet with another break, which is called “on the current page”.
This is done as follows:
It is quite difficult to delete a sheet without printable characters, which is located immediately after the table. The problem in this case is that the utility automatically inserts an empty paragraph after the table, and if the table ends at the very border of the sheet, then the empty paragraph will be moved to the next sheet. However, keep in mind that you do not have the opportunity to destroy this empty paragraph.
What to do in this case? The solution is to simply hide that empty paragraph at the bottom of the document. This operation is carried out as follows:
The result of your efforts should be the disappearance of the blank sheet from your document.
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.
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:
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, friends! How to remove an unnecessary page in Word is the topic of my today’s “Crib Sheet”. For those who have not encountered a similar problem, this question may seem ridiculous. However, such a need may arise in the following cases:
The first two problems are solved so simply that I, friends, even doubted whether it was even worth talking about in this article. But then I decided that since all the previous “Cribs” each examined its own question meticulously and thoroughly, then let this one be the most complete guide to the problem of how to remove an unnecessary page in Word. So, let's remove the title page.
If you do not want to remove the title completely, but only replace it with one of the templates offered by Word, then you just need to click on the selected option. The old title page will be immediately replaced with the new one. In case of complete refusal of the title page, you should click on the line “ remove cover page" All these operations are performed in the “ Insert", section " Pages" When you press the button " Front page"In the drop-down window you can select either a suitable template or delete the title altogether (Fig. 1). 
The second, third, any other, or several pages at once can be easily and simply removed by clearing them of text. To do this, select the top line on the page to be deleted, then, while holding down the Shift key, select the bottom line. All text on the extra page is selected, after which we remove it using the key Delete. This operation can be performed on all pages to be rejected at once. When the text, graphics, or formatting disappears, the page also disappears.
Please note, friends, if the pages have been numbered, there will be no breaks in it. The numbering will automatically be restored in order.
Blank pages... This flaw is usually detected when the document is printed. If it was numbered, then such “dummies” violate the logical order of numbers. And we don’t need any extra paper consumption. Is not it?
But why do extra pages appear in Word documents? Where do they come from? Is this an error in the program or perhaps the printer? No, friends. Neither the WORD text editor, nor, especially, the printer has anything to do with it. All such “jambs” are only our merit.
The fact is that such pages only seem empty. In fact, they always have some hidden formatting characters. We don’t see them, but the program takes them into account as full-fledged and necessary. To prevent such incidents from happening, my advice to you: when typing text and formatting it, always turn on the “ Show formatting marks" After activating it, you will see marks of paragraphs, spaces, headers or footers or breaks on the supposedly “blank” page.
Now, I think it’s clear that to delete a “blank” page you just need to display formatting marks on it and remove them using the key Backspace. Just? Without a doubt! But there is another - more complex case. Let's consider it.
If the last page of a document, chapter, or section ends with a table, then it is more difficult to get rid of the blank page at the end. The fact is that you cannot delete the last paragraph mark in the Word text editor. And it will automatically be transferred after the table to a new sheet. What to do in this case?
Of course, there is a way out. Yes, the program will not allow us to remove the paragraph mark. So let's make it invisible not only to us, but also to the Word itself. To do this, select our ill-fated icon and on the “ home"go to the section " Font" Click on the arrow in the lower right corner to open the font adjustment window and put a checkmark in the line “ hidden" Click " OK" - mission accomplished. We got rid of the last blank page after the table (Fig. 2). 
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.
When a blank page appears only when printing, but is not visible in the document, check the printer settings. Most likely there is a separator stamp between different tasks.
A blank page can be caused by extra paragraph marks - they appear if you accidentally press “Enter” several times. To see them, on the main toolbar in the “Paragraph” section, click on “Display all characters”. A similar function is available in all versions of the program - Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2003 and others.
How to delete a blank page in Word: if paragraph marks in the form of the ¶ symbol appear on the sheet, select them all and erase them. The extra pages will disappear.
Sometimes extra pages appear in Word due to forced breaks. If you make a gap like this and then add text in front of it, the separator may slide down to the next sheet and it will become empty.
How to delete a blank sheet with a gap in Word: select the separator symbol and erase it with the “Delete” key. You will immediately see how the page is deleted.
If your document has multiple sections, section dividers may create blank pages. When the break is before the last sheet, it can simply be removed, just like a page break.
If an extra sheet appears in the middle in Word, removing the section break will disrupt the formatting at the bottom. To avoid this, change the break type:
This way you can simultaneously delete the blank sheet and preserve the formatting of the sections.
If the last sheet has a table at the bottom, it may create a blank page. After the table, Word must put a paragraph mark, which cannot be removed. If the plate reaches the bottom of the page - for example, in a tabular resume template - the paragraph symbol will automatically move to the next sheet.
How to delete a sheet after a table:
We learned how to remove unnecessary sheets. Hidden formatting marks help you see the structure of the document and flexibly manage it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
