How can I remove the blank page after section break?

This is marked answered, but I had a similar problem:

The end of my template has an odd section break. If the last page of text was odd, then Word added two pages (or sometimes just one odd page) to the doc. I couldn't delete the odd section break and retain page formatting, even if I put a section break continuous on the last odd page with text--Word would just change the continuous section break to an odd section break, and I had the same issue (2 blank pages).

I looked here first, and found this clumsy workaround. Then I rechecked Word Help and found this:

"Delete a blank page

Make sure that you're in Draft view (Draft view: A view that shows text formatting and a simplified page layout. Draft view is convenient for most editing and formatting tasks.) (on the View menu in the status bar, click Draft). If nonprinting characters, such as paragraph markers (¶), are not visible, onHome, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide.

• To delete a blank page, select the page break at the end of the page, and then press DELETE."

This worked!

In Draft View, I inserted the continuous section break at the end of the last marker on the text page, and then deleted the odd section break, and voila! It worked. Word didn't change the continuous section break to odd, even in Print View, and the two empty pages were deleted and page formatting retained.

Don't want blank page between different sections in draft document ("next page" section breaks). Tried hiding and tried changing paragraph symbol font size to 1. Still getting blank page. UGH!

The blank page after new section is a result of page setup. The default for new section is that it always start on EVEN PAGE.

To solve this problem:

1. Click in the section after that blank page
2. >page setup >>Layout
3. Under the topic "Section"
4. Change the "Section Start"

The 4th step is tricky though. You have to change the value to meet with your document. For example, I want my new section to start on page 3, but the program left my 3rd page blank (so it can begin the new section at the even page, which is page 4). So I have to change "Section Start" to be "Odd Page" so that the program will put my new section on page 3. And so that I won't have any blank page before my new section.

Hope this helps!