How to delete a blank page in Word?.

Very often, when finishing work in Word, the user suddenly discovers that he has a blank page from somewhere at the end of the document. Attempts to liquidate it lead nowhere. There are no hints in the menu or in the settings on how to remove it, and for a beginner, this becomes a real problem.

We're not going to figure out where such a page comes from right now. The topic of this article is not about that. Our task is different - to figure out how to delete a blank page in the Word. In most cases, this is due to such a concept as "page break", and by removing such a break, we will simultaneously get rid of the blank sheet. How to do it? We read on.

Eraser named Delete

Open a document with an extra page. If our toolbar is collapsed, then click on the checkmark in the upper right corner to expand it.

Now in the "Main" menu we find the icon "Show all signs" and click on it with the mouse. As a result, we will see all the technical symbols of the document. They do not go to print and are present only in the edited text. And even then, if you turned on their display. We need the "Page Break" caption. It is at the end of the text.

We click the cursor behind the last character of our text and press the Delete key.

Everything. The extra page has been sent to the dustbin of history.

Magic key Backspace

However, sometimes the appearance of a blank page is caused by the presence of invisible paragraphs and lines that the user inadvertently created and simply forgot about them.

In this case, the question “how to delete a blank page in the Word” is solved even easier. Press the key combination "Ctrl End" and find ourselves at the very end of the document, at the bottom of the last page (empty, in our situation). Then we begin to rhythmically press the Backspace key. And we continue this action until the empty sheet disappears. Both of these methods are well shown in the following video:

Someone may shrug their shoulders and think - yes, it is not difficult to delete a blank page in the Word, but why do it at all? Indeed, by and large, it does not bother anyone, especially if it is at the end of the document. One can agree with this, but only until the moment of printing. At the time of printing, such a page will also be processed by the printer, like its sisters with text. That is, the extra resource of your printing device will be wasted on an unnecessary dummy. Therefore, the removal of blank sheets is a mandatory element of prepress preparation. Good luck!

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