Can not delete blank page at the end of a document in MS Word 365 (urgent help!)

Hi Ari94,

I'm Tyler, an independent advisor trying to help.

Here is something that can help you.

Here is the most basic approach: Go to your unwanted blank page in your Word document, click as close to the bottom of the page as you can, and press your Backspace key until the page is removed.

If that fails, try this: Click the "View" tab from the Ribbon and select (check) the Navigation Pane in the "Show" section. Now, click on Pages, and select the blank page thumbnail in the left panel. Press your Delete key until it is removed.

If that doesn't work either, double check your Sections: Click the "Layout" tab from the Ribbon and click the Margins button, and select Custom Margins... From here, Click the Layout tab. In the drop-down menu next to Section start, make sure that "New page" is selected. Click OK.

Still not having luck? Try turning on the Paragraph button to see where all of the line breaks are in your Word document. Here is how: At the top of the Ribbon, simply click the ¶ button or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + 8.

If your blank page is in the middle of the document, it may be due to a manual page break. With paragraph marks turned on, you will be able to see the page break. Select it and delete it. It should be gone.

If None of that Works, Look at Your Section Breaks

Next Page, Odd Page, and Even Page section breaks may create a new page in Word. If your empty page occurs at the end of your document and you have a section break there, you can place your cursor directly before the section break and press Delete to delete it. That should remove the blank page.

(If you are having trouble seeing your section breaks try going to the View tab of the Ribbon and switch to Draft mode. This way, you will have a clear picture of where the page breaks are, as they will be represented by long, dotted lines.)

Important Note: If a section break is causing a blank page in the middle of a document, removing the section break can cause formatting issues. If you intended for the content that follows that point to have different formatting, then keep the section break. You don’t want to delete the section break because that would cause the pages before the section break to take on the formatting of the pages after the section break. You can, however, change the section break to a Continuous section break, which will preserve the formatting changes without inserting a blank page.

To change the section breaks to a Continuous section break:

Place your cursor after the section break you want to change

Go to the Layout tab on the Ribbon

Click the Page Setup dialog launcher

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

That should remove your blank page without affecting your formatting.

I hope this helps you.

Source of the steps > https://blog.nhlearningsolutions.com/blog/tabid...

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Best Regards,

Tyler.

Résumés are often set up using tables; see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/BlankPage.htm#TableAtEnd

Possibly because you may be using a version of Office that is in other than English, what normally appears as a Pilcrow

appears as a different symbol

The symbol that is used in that position denotes the end of a paragraph when you have the display of non-printing characters enabled (which is done by using CTRL+SHIFT+8, or by clicking on that symbol in the Paragraph section of the Home tab of the ribbon.

When there is a table in the document, as in your case,

it is NOT possible to delete that symbol, but there are a couple of things that you can do to prevent it from causing the blank page to appear.  Those are:

1. With the cursor in that paragraph, which is where it appears to be in your screen shot, access the Paragraph dialog and set the Line spacing to an Exact amount of 1 pt (which is the minimum) and also set the space before and after to 0 pt.
2. If that does not overcome the issue, you can select that paragraph and format it as Hidden via the Font dialog.  When it is hidden, and you toggle off the display of non-printing characters, it should not appear.  However if it does, go to File>Options>Display and uncheck the box for Hidden text.

Hi, thank you very much for the quick reply with various solutions.

Sorry for late reply. Actually when I got your answer I wanted to sign in to reply but the website answers.microsoft.com remained white. After several attempts I gave up and now sign in.

I tried your solution did not work and some did not apply in my case such as page break.

This one I did not follow: (Italic part did not understand though I tried)

If that doesn't work either, double check your Sections: Click the "Layout" tab from the Ribbon and click the Margins button, and select Custom Margins... From here, Click the Layout tab. In the drop-down menu next to Section start, make sure that "New page" is selected. Click OK.

This one nothing happened even I used Ctrl + Shift + 8.

Still not having luck? Try turning on the Paragraph button to see where all of the line breaks are in your Word document. Here is how: At the top of the Ribbon, simply click the ¶ button or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + 8.  (refer screen shot). No sign of ¶ button.

May be after looking at the screen shot you may find something.

Thank you.

Ari

Hi,

Thank you very much for the reply along with URL.

I read the article and found it very helpful. It seems that article was talking about my problem.

Before getting answers from you guys, I deleted the last column on 2nd page and the 3rd page disappeared which was my intention.

Thank you once again for guiding and helping.

Ari