How to delete page in word

Delete a blank page

Word includes a non-deleteable end-paragraph that sometimes gets pushed out to a new, blank page at the end of a document. The way to delete the page is to make the end-paragraph fit onto the preceding page. The most sure-fire way is to make the end-paragraph very small (1 point):

Press Ctrl+Shift+8 (⌘+8 on a Mac) to show paragraph marks.

Select the paragraph mark.

The paragraph now fits on the preceding page, removing the unwanted blank page.

Press Ctrl+Shift+8 again to hide the paragraph marks (⌘+8 on a Mac).

If that paragraph still doesn’t fit on the preceding page, you can make the bottom margin smaller ( Layout tab > Margins > Custom Margins, and set the bottom margin to something small, like 0.3 inches).

Tip: If the paragraph mark has a square bullet next to it, the paragraph might have the Page break before option turned on. To turn it off, right-select the empty paragraph, select Paragraph Settings ( Home tab), and on the Lines and Page Breaks tab of thedialog box, uncheck Page break before.

Convert to PDF

You can get rid of a trailing blank page by saving the document as a PDF, leaving out the last page.

Go to File > Save As, pick a place to save the file, and then choose PDF for the Save as type.

Select Options in the Save As dialog box.

Under Page range, choose Page(s), and then specify your non-blank pages. For example, if page 5 of your document is the blank page you can’t get rid of, specify pages from 1 to 4.

Select OK, and then select Save.

Page breaks tell Word where to start a new page. A manual page break might be making an unwanted blank page in your document.

To see manual page breaks, switch to showing paragraph marks:

Press Ctrl+Shift+8 (⌘+8 on a Mac).

Now you can select the page break and delete it.

Section break problems

In the middle of a document, deleting section breaks can cause formatting problems. In these cases, try changing the section break to one that doesn’t generate a new page. Here’s how:

Double select the section break.

On the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box, select the Section start drop down and select Continuous.

Odd, Even, and Next cause blank pages

Next Page, Odd Page, and Even Page section breaks may create a blank page in your document. If the blank page occurs at the end of your document and you have a section break there, place your cursor directly before the section break and press Delete.

Tip: To more easily find section breaks, try switching to Draft on the View tab.

Delete a blank page

If you have an unwanted blank page in your document, the document may contain empty paragraphs, manual page breaks, or specially formatted section breaks. You can delete empty paragraphs and page breaks using the Edit view in Word for the web. To delete or modify section breaks, you’ll need the Word desktop application.

Note: If you’re looking to delete an entire document, rather than simply a single page, see Delete files or folders in OneDrive.

Follow these steps to remove empty paragraphs and page breaks using Word for the web.

Click Edit Document > Edit in Word for the web.

Empty paragraphs appear as blank lines in your document. To remove them, just select them and delete them. (A paragraph in Word is any text that ends with a hard return.)

To delete a page break, click it to select it, and then press Delete.

If you have the Word desktop application, you can use the Open in Word command to open the document and delete section breaks.

Once you have the document open in Word, see Delete a page in Word. If you don’t have Word, you can try or buy it in the latest version of Office now.

Tip: Word for the web works seamlessly with Word and other Office desktop programs, and we update it based on input like yours. For the latest feature announcements, visit the Office Online blog.

Do you have a question about Word for the web that we didn’t answer here?

Help us improve Word

Do you have suggestions about how we can improve Word for the web? If so, let us know by providing us feedback. See How do I give feedback on Microsoft Office? for more information.

How to Delete a Page in Word – Remove Blank or Extra Pages

If you’re using Microsoft Word, you don’t want blank pages appearing in the middle of your document, or extra pages at the end.

These extra pages could be caused by tables, hitting the ENTER key too many times, unnecessary section breaks, unintentional page breaks, extra paragraph markers, and more.

You don’t want your Word document to look unprofessional because of this quirk, so in this article I’ll show you how to delete blank and extra pages in Word.

I will be using Microsoft Office 2016 in this tutorial, but you can follow along with any version, as pretty much the same thing applies to all versions.

How to Delete a Blank Page in the Middle of a Word Document

If you are working with a large word document and you are about to present it or print it, it’s a good idea to check for blank pages and an extra final page.

This key combination displays paragraph markers (¶) at the end of every paragraph and each blank line – basically, whenever you hit the ENTER key, and at the beginning of the extra blank page.

To remove these extra pages, highlight the paragraph markers with your mouse or trackpad and hit the DELETE button. If one of the markers remains there, remove it with the BACKSPACE key.

If you have the patience, you can also remove the blank page(s) by going to the blank pages and hitting the BACKSPACE key until the paragraph markers disappear.

How to Delete an Extra Blank Page in a Word Document

Step 1: To delete an extra blank page that might get added at the end of your document, click the View tab:

Step 3: The active page will be automatically selected. Click the extra blank page to select it and hit the DELETE button on your keyboard to remove it.

You can also remove this extra blank page by simply pressing the BACKSPACE key.

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to remove blank pages in Word, so you can make your documents appear more professional.

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How to delete a page in Word

Blank pages in a document can make an unprofessional impression on editors or potential employers. Microsoft Word is known to create blank pages in a document, so you should make sure to delete them whenever possible.

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Our goal is to help others avoid the frustration associated with blank pages. Since Microsoft Word is a popular document creator, we’ve put together the following guide to help you delete those unwanted pages should they crop up in this particular word processor. Should you also need to delete a page in Word that has text and graphics, our guide includes instructions for that as well.

How to delete a page in Word with content

Deleting a page with text and graphics is different from deleting a completely blank page. So first, let’s walk through the steps to delete a page in Word that’s filled with content.

Step 1: The first step in deleting a page is to select it. Either scroll to the page or use the Go to function (Ctrl + G on Windows, Option + Command + G on MacOS).

When you’ve found the page, select any spot on it.

Step 2: Next, select all content on the page. It might sound like you’ve already done this step, but this is so that Word knows that you want to delete the whole page, not just some of the content on it.

Open the Go to function (Ctrl + G, or Option + Command + G if you’re on a Mac) and type «\page» in the Enter page number box. Then, select Go to (or press Enter or Return on your keyboard) followed by Close.

Alternatively, you can use your cursor to drag through the content on the page to select it all.

Step 3: Finally, delete the page. Microsoft Word doesn’t have a dedicated page deletion tool, but now that we’ve selected the page’s content, we can delete it easily.

Double-check that you’ve selected the entirety of the page and press the Delete key.

How to delete a blank page in Word

Most text editors, Word included, have a habit of creating blank pages at the end of your document for seemingly no reason. Deleting those before you fire it off to your boss or the printer is usually a good idea.

Step 1: To find the blank page(s), open up the Navigation pane. You can do so by selecting the View tab and making sure that the Navigation pane box is ticked.

When the sidebar on the left opens, select Pages to show all the pages in your document.

Step 2: Scroll through the list to find the blank page(s) you want to delete. Pick one and double-click it to jump straight to it.

Step 3: Hold Ctrl + Shift + 8 on Windows or Command + 8 on Mac to make the paragraph marks visible.

Step 4: Select the paragraph mark on the blank page, go to the Home tab, and enter “1” in the Font size box. Press Enter to lock in the size.

The paragraph attached to the paragraph mark should then fit on the previous page, removing the blank page.

Step 5: After you’ve made all necessary changes, you can hide the paragraph marks again by holding Ctrl + Shift + 8 on Windows or Command + 8 on a Mac.

Now that you know how to delete a page in Word, take a look at how to remove a page break or how to double-space in Word.

How to Delete Pages in Word (Blank or Not)

Posted on Last updated: February 16, 2021

Today I’m going to show you how to delete pages in Word. Maybe you have unwanted content on some of your pages which you want to get rid of by deleting the entire pages. Or there are some blank pages at the end of your Word document that you want to delete.

In this post, you’ll learn how to remove a single page or multiple pages in MS Word using the methods outlined below.

The default option to delete pages in Word is to select and delete the content on the pages, then Word will automatically delete the page as well. Microsoft Word doesn’t deal with pages. Rather, it deals with the text (content) on those pages. Therefore, there’s no way you can delete pages in Word with a single action unless with the help of some VBA code which I’ll share with you soon.

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How to Select and Delete pages in Word

This option involves selecting all the text on the page or pages that you want to delete and then delete by either using the Delete key or Backspace.

Without further ado, below is how you can select and delete pages in MS Word.

Quick Solution:

Word will automatically delete all the pages that were holding the content.

If you don’t understand the above simple steps, please keep reading below for further explanations.

Option 1: Using the “Navigation Pane”

In MS Word, one of the simplest ways you can select and delete blank or unwanted pages is to use the navigation pane.

It allows you to view the pages thumbnails, which you can select and delete with the delete key.

Obey the steps below to learn how:

As soon as you press the delete key, the selected page will get deleted.

Just know that in Word you can only select and delete the pages one after the other. You cannot perform a bulk delete unless with the help of some Macro which you’ll also learn later in this tutorial.

Option 2: How to select and delete the current page

In this method, I assume that you want to delete only one page in your Word document. You’ll learn how to delete multiple pages in the next section.

With this approach, you can easily delete only the current page.

Thus, if you’re not on the page you want to remove, navigate to that page and click inside the page.

If you are already on the page you want to delete, then let’s get started with the steps below:

NOTE: If there were pages after the deleted page, those pages will shift to replace the page or pages you just deleted.

Option 3: How to select and delete multiple pages

Using the Find and Replace, you can also select and delete multiple pages all at once.

This is particularly useful if the pages you want to delete are many and consecutive, like page 23 to 30 (7 consecutive pages).

To select and delete such multiple pages in Word, the steps are outlined below:

This is how you may delete multiple pages in Word.

Option 4: Select and delete pages Using the Mouse

Another way you may delete pages in Word is to highlight all the content on the pages you want to delete using the mouse, then press delete.

To highlight or select an entire page using the mouse:

Go to the page you want to select and position your cursor at the beginning of the text. Click and hold your primary mouse button (i.e. the left-button). While holding the mouse button, drag the cursor to the end of the text on the page, and then let go of the mouse button.

Bonus Tip: If you are deleting multiple pages using the mouse to select, zoom the pages to say 10% or 20% so that you can see many pages on the screen at the same time. Then use the mouse to select the pages you want to remove and press the delete key to delete them.

Option 5: Select text using the keyboard

You can also select and delete pages in Word using the keyboard.

To do so, place your cursor at the start of the page, and press Ctrl+Shift+down-arrow. Word will be making the selection by paragraph after paragraph until the last paragraph.

To deselect a paragraph, whilst still pressing down the Ctrl+Shift, press the up-arrow key.

As soon as you delete the text, Word will delete the page as well. However, if there were pages after the deleted page, those pages will replace the deleted pages.

Option 6: How to delete blank pages in Word

At times, you may not just want to delete pages, but some extra blank pages especially at the end of the document.

Normally, this extra page is caused by a non-removable end-paragraph that gets pushed down to a new blank page.

When that happens, deleting this page with the Delete or Backspace key won’t work.

Instead, you should format the end-paragraph to fit into the preceding page.

The steps below will show you how.

As soon as you change the font size of the last paragraph mark, it will fit into the preceding page, deleting the unwanted blank page.

Option 7: Delete specific pages in Word using Macro

By default, you can’t delete pages in word with a single action; like typing in the page number of the pages you want to delete, and then with a click on a button, the pages will be deleted.

However, with the help of some VBA code, this task is possible.

All you have to do is type the page numbers into a box separated with a comma, then click OK to delete the specified pages.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Dim iRange As Range

Dim iPage As String

Dim iDoc As Document

Dim iPageCount As Integer

Dim I, xSplitCount As Long

Set iDoc = ActiveDocument

iPage = InputBox(“Enter the page numbers of pages to deleted: ” & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _

“NOTE: Use comma to separate page numbers”, “Delete Pages”, “”)

Selection.GoTo wdGoToPage, wdGoToAbsolute, iArr(I)

Here’s how the editor will look after pasting the above code:

If the code works fine, save the Macro and assign it to a shortcut key or pin it to your Quick Access Toolbar. The remaining steps will show you how to pin a macro code to the QAT.

Now you’ll have the macro available on your QAT. This is just a onetime process. The next time you want to delete pages in Word, you don’t have to go through all the steps, you just click on the macro icon from the QAT and Word will prompt you for the page number of the pages you want to delete.

THINGS YOU SHOULD NOTE HERE:

Bonus Option: Delete the current page using VBA Macro

This is a very quick way to delete the current page in your document.

Using the steps in the preceding approach to delete pages in Word, you can use the macro below to save the day:

You can assign this macro to a shortcut key so that you can easily delete the current page or pin it to the QAT as shown in option 6.

To assign a Macro to a keyboard shortcut read this guide.

Conclusion

You can use the options above to remove pages in word.

However, if you try all the options on this page and still cannot delete some pages in your document, please let me know by your comment below.