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.
Note: If you're looking to delete an entire document, rather than simply a single page, see Delete files or folders in OneDrive. 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. 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. 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. Post a question in the Word for the web Answers Community. 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?
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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. I will be using Microsoft Office in this tutorial, but you can follow along with any version, as pretty much the same thing applies to all versions. Step 1 : To delete an extra blank page that might get added at the end of your document, click the View tab:. Step 2 : Go to the Navigation Pane.
This will display a sidebar containing 3 tabs — Headings , Pages , and Results. Click on Pages to display all the pages of the document in the sidebar. Step 3 : The active page will be automatically selected.
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Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. How to delete a non-empty page in Word ? Someone sent me a three-page document. I only want to send on the first page, How do I get rid of page 2 and 3? They are not empty pages. This shouldn't be something I have to go searching for a command to do. One of the things I hate about Word. The simple things are almost impossible to do.
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Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. When I do that the text remains on the page only it has lines through it. It still won't delete. In reply to audioeditor's post on September 24, In that case, you must have Track Changes turned on.
From where you are at the moment, go to the Review tab and expand the Accept dropdown in the Changes section of the ribbon and then click on Accept All Changes. Clicking on the Track Changes item in the Tracking section of the ribbon toggles the change tracking facility from On to Off and vice versa. The status of the facility is shown in the bar at the bottom of the Word window. However, if you do not see it there, right click on that bar and then from the list of items with which it can be customized, check the Track Changes item.
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