How to remove the paragraph symbol

I'm not seeing any extra pages when printing your sample file.

You document contains the title on page 1, followed by a Page Break that creates page 2. On page 2, you have inserted soft returns, so there is only one paragraph mark at the end of the text. You file appears to be a normal Word document, I don't see any problems with it.

Another guess is that the page before this has a table at the end, requiring the paragraph mark. If that is the situation, select the paragraph mark and change the size to 1.

The paragraph symbol (¶) is a formatting mark that Word always uses to indicate the end of a paragraph. Every new, blank document contains at least one end‑paragraph, so seeing a single ¶ in an empty document is normal. It is not extra content that can be removed; Word requires that final paragraph mark.

To hide the ¶ symbol and other formatting marks on screen so they don’t distract when editing or previewing for print:

1. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, select Show/Hide ¶ to toggle formatting marks off.
   • Or press Ctrl+Shift+8 to turn all formatting marks on or off.

If only some marks are showing and need to be controlled more precisely:

1. Go to File > Options > Display.
2. Under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, clear Paragraph marks or select Show all formatting marks off, depending on what is currently enabled.
3. Select OK.

This hides the paragraph symbol on screen. The underlying end‑paragraph still exists (as required by Word) but will not normally print unless it has special formatting (for example, borders or a page break option) applied to it.

References:

• Word Options (Display)
• Delete a blank page

If every Word document you create starts with that symbol, that you may need to recreate a new Normal template. See

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5234982/how-do-i-create-a-new-normal-and-save-it-in-place

Another possibility is that you may be creating this symbol yourself when you have a new document open when your computer goes to sleep, and then you press the Enter key to wake up it up.

The paragraph mark is not creating the problem. There is other content preceding it that is creating an extra page. You can upload a sample file to a cloud service, then post a password-free share link link, and we can tell you exactly what is the issue. One guess: if you have formatted your document with even and odd page headers, Word may generate an extra page automatically. But that's just a guess.