Today, no one can be surprised by working in text editors. But not everyone understands the intricacies of using editors. Let's look at several ways to delete a page in the Microsoft Word 2010 text editor. Sometimes there is a need to delete both a page that contains text and a blank page. After all, such pages can confuse everything in principle, and in particular when printing a document or when numbering. Therefore, the problem of page deletion needs to be solved.
Removing a blank page
There are different ways to delete a blank page.
Which method is the easiest?
The simplest one is the backspace or delete keys. If you need to delete the next page, place the cursor at the end of the previous page and press the delete key. And if the previous page is deleted, then you need to put the courses at the beginning of the next one and press the backspace key.
Open the “Home” section and click on the icon that is responsible for non-printing characters, or rather, for their display. This icon can be found after the Paragraph section. Click on the icon. Now the document has acquired a different look - all the icons that were previously invisible to the eye are reflected on it. These will include double spaces and symbols. If you wish, you can take advantage of the situation and remove them. Now you need to find the phrase “page break” in the document, which should be at the end of the text. It needs to be highlighted. And after selection, delete it with the Backspace key. Now the blank page has been removed from the document and will not be in the way.
Deleting a page with text
Now we know how to delete a blank page. Let's move on to deleting the filled page - text, image, etc. No special knowledge in the field of information technology is required, in fact, how much time is required. So let's get started. You need to move the cursor to the place you want to delete. Click the “Main” section on the panel and go to the “find” subsection and click on it. Follow the arrow and get to the “Go” section. A window has opened where you need to indicate the number of the page that needs to be deleted. and then click “Go”. The selected text opens and deletes it. We close the window and delete the text in the standard way - either delete or backspace. That's all, now you are familiar with the process of deleting pages in Word 2010.
Conclusion:
Now you know that deleting a page in the Microsoft Word 2010 editor does not require any special skills. The main thing is to follow the instructions, and then everything will happen automatically. Blank pages can be deleted very simply - for example, by using the delete or backspace keys, as well as by displaying non-printing characters and deleting them. Pages with text can be deleted just as easily - the text is selected and the page is deleted. It's simple, quick, and absolutely anyone can handle it.
How to delete a page in Word
Good afternoon friends.
We continue our immersion in the topic of designing text documents, revealing all the functions and capabilities of the Word editor. If you missed previous articles, you can find them on the blog at any time. We have already talked about numbering, how to make hyperlinks, footnotes, tables and insert formulas.
Today we will figure out how to delete a sheet in Word, consider special cases and ways to properly edit a document.
I'm using a 2019 text editor and will show the steps using it as an example. Most functions have been retained in all versions since 2007. Since 2010, the program interface has remained almost unchanged.
If you use Word 2010 and later releases, then you should not have any difficulties repeating my steps. In older versions, you can do the same thing, but you may have to look for the necessary functions in other sections of the menu.
If something doesn’t work out, write in the comments, I’ll help.
Deleting a custom sheet
To remove any fragment of a document, you need to select it from beginning to end, holding down the left mouse button, and press Delete on the keyboard.
Second option: select part of the text and click on the right mouse button, in the context menu click on the “Cut” item.
If we have selected the contents of one or more pages, they will be completely deleted and the rest of the text will be pulled up.
To quickly find the desired place in a document, you can use the combination “Ctrl + G” on the keyboard.
In the window that appears, indicate the number of the unnecessary page and go straight to it. After this, the navigation window can be closed.
For example, I want to cut out the second sheet. I go to it, then select all the contents and press Del on the keyboard.
How to remove blank first and last pages
Most often, empty spaces are formed at the beginning and end of the document due to extra paragraph marks. In the usual standard viewing mode, we do not see them, and this is not necessary to solve this small problem.
To remove a blank sheet at the beginning of the text, place the cursor on the very first line and press the Del button until the content is pulled up.
Second option: place the cursor in front of the first word and press Backspace until we move to the very beginning of the document.
You can remove empty spaces at the end of the text using the same methods. I usually place the cursor after the last word and press the Del button as many times as necessary to make the blank page disappear.
Second option: go to the end of the file by pressing the key combination “Ctrl + End”, and then use Backspace.
If you still want to see the reason for the resulting void, click on the sign of unreadable characters in the menu in the “Home” tab, in the “Paragraph” section.
Now, on a blank page, you will most likely see symbols like the example below, or dots and other symbols.
To remove a sheet, select all these characters by holding down the left mouse button and press Del or Backspace.
How to remove a blank sheet after a table
If an article or report ends with a table that extends to the bottom of the page, the program will automatically create a blank sheet. By enabling unreadable characters, as shown above, we will see a paragraph mark, but we cannot simply remove it.
There is a little trick here. Select this symbol, right-click and go to font settings.
In the window that opens, check the “hidden” item and confirm the changes. After that, we hide the unreadable characters, and the empty page disappears.
Removing the blank space in the middle of the document
There is another common reason for the appearance of empty spaces in the text - page and section breaks. They can be configured in different ways, and in some cases, after editing the text, a void is found right in the middle of the document.
To make it easier to identify problem areas, I usually ask the editor to show the navigation area.
In my example, you can clearly see that the third page is empty. That's what we'll do. Go to its beginning and turn on the display of hidden symbols, if you have not already done so. A section break looks like this.
Sometimes they are hard to see and you have to switch to draft mode.
The most obvious solution is to delete it using the already familiar Delete or Backspace buttons, but it’s not that simple. In this way you can get rid of page breaks, usually this does not lead to any visible consequences.
But sections appear in a file for a reason; they are often involved in creating a certain design. Certain parts of the text may have different fields, headers, numbering formats, and fonts. By removing the separator, we can disrupt this structure, so we need to be more delicate here.
Double-click on the “Section Break” text with the left mouse button. The settings window appears in front of us. Go to the “Paper Source” tab and ask the program to start the next section on the current page. Save the changes.
Conclusion
We have discussed all the main cases and ways to remove an extra page from a file. I hope everything worked out for you. If you still encounter difficulties, describe your situation in the comments and we’ll discuss it.
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May the Word gurus and its creators forgive me... If you have a more rational solution to the problem with the last section and the last page, please tell me in the comments.
The abundance of questions “how to delete the last page in Word” and “How to preserve formatting in Word after deleting a page” (more precisely, the question sounds more like this: why when I delete a page in Word, everything creeps up on me), served as the reason for writing this note. I don’t consider myself a WORD expert, so I don’t exclude that there is a more correct (correct, convenient...) solution.
Quite often, when editing WORD documents, you may encounter a situation where the last page turns out to be empty (the plate is over, and there is another sheet behind it). What to do?
How to delete the last page in Word?
First of all, let's go to the last page and see what's there? If there are a lot of characters (paragraphs or spaces) - just put the cursor at the beginning of the page and press DEL (ete) until everything is deleted. If there is only one paragraph character left and it does not want to be deleted, press BackSpace once - it’s possible
Most likely, the reason is that the very last character in the document simply did not fit on the penultimate page. Most often, it helps to place the cursor on the last page and reduce the font size of the last paragraph (say, make it equal to 1 or 2 - you can not only select from the drop-down list, but also write “with pens”). You can also reduce the vertical indents of the same paragraph... in general, make sure that the last paragraph “fits” into the remaining free space.
Often, when deleting the last page, a formatting issue occurs. To be more precise, when the last partition is deleted, its formatting is applied to the previous (penultimate) partition. I haven’t found how to delete a section without a formatting “failure” (if anyone knows, please share in the comments), but there is a little trick that allows you to delete the last sheet while preserving the Word formatting.
How to Remove the Last Section in Word
First of all, go to the section with the required formatting (the penultimate one), and go to the Page Setup window (double-click on the ruler or the File-Page Setup menu). We enter all the values for the fields (you can simply erase the centimeters.. The fact is that they are already set.. but if you do not touch them, then when you select “apply to the entire document”, all values will become empty), select the paper orientation, go to Paper Source tab and select Start the “On Current Page” section.
It is possible (if the formatting of the last section to be deleted is different from the previous one) that additional changes will need to be made, but in my case (on the last sheet there was a “horizontal” plate that needed to be deleted) the changes described were sufficient.
After setting all the properties in the lower drop-down list, select “Apply to the entire document” and click “OK”. After that, we boldly go to the penultimate page and move the section break to it - we delete the characters before the break, but not the page break itself. To reduce the space required for the last paragraph, you can reduce the font and vertical indents (as in the first part of this article)
Sometimes when working with the Microsoft Word text editor, the following problem may arise - a blank sheet appears. Everything would be fine, but by accident it can be created in the middle of the document, and this will disrupt the duplex printing process or disrupt the page numbering.
In general, you should always get rid of blank sheets, otherwise at the end of the work you may end up with a defect. To avoid possible problems, I recommend that you always use the “Preview” function before printing. You can launch it by clicking on the " Office» — « Seal» — « Preview».
Now we return to our blank sheets. So, our task is to remove the blank sheet from the document. Pages for a document in MS Word are created by pressing just one button, which is located in the “ tab Insert" But removing the sheet will not be so easy, although this is also not a very complicated process.
Another option to create a sheet is to click on the button Enter. That is, by pressing this button many times you can reach the end of the current page and go to a new one. Accordingly, in order to remove the sheet you need to remove the indents, and you can do this using the buttons " Delete" And " Backspace».
It's very simple. Similarly, you can remove the blank page located in the middle of the document.
By the way, the “” button can help you figure out where the indents are. Show all icons" Clicking on it will allow you to see all the indents between words or the presence of paragraphs in any part of the document.
Also be sure to review the empty page and its predecessor, since the first one could have been created due to the created " Page break" You can remove it using the same buttons " Delete" And " Backspace».
Well, another option for deleting a blank page is the key combination “ Ctrl+Z"—cancel the previous action performed. That is, when using this combination, you cancel the last action you performed, which could be clicking on the “Page Break” button or adding an extra indent using Enter.
If for some reason you do not have access to the keyboard, then in the text editor window there is a “Cancel input” button. It is located in the upper left part of the Microsoft Word program window, near the “ Office».
The first question that arises is: “Where did it come from?”
There can be several reasons, and more often it is an accidentally created empty paragraph or a forced page break.
The “Show all icons” feature will help you detect empty paragraphs.
There are several ways to find extra characters in text:
- In the main section of the panel, you need to click the “Display all characters” button, then all paragraph symbols (¶) that do not contain text will be visible in the Word text.
- Using the hotkeys CTRL+SHIFT+8.
- In the “View” section, select the “Structure” mode.
Other causes of empty spaces or an entire page:
- Forced page break. Accidentally pressing a button will make the text transition to another page, then there will be empty space on the first one, and the text will continue on the next page. If the break is made at the beginning of the page, it will appear blank when printed.
- Breaking sections. When typing essays, term papers and scientific papers, the rules for document formatting, as a rule, require starting a new chapter or section on a new page. A printed document looks neater, but blank pages containing one or two paragraphs are unattractive.
- Blank page after the table at the end of the document. The text editor settings provide for the automatic creation of an empty paragraph after the table. If a table ends the document text or section, a blank page may appear.
The main reason why there is a need to delete a blank page in a document is to obtain a neatly formatted, executed document when printing.
Let's look at the available options with which you can delete a blank page in Word.
How to remove the first (title) page
Basically, the first page looks like a title page. In some cases, the user may not need such a page and may need to delete the first (title) page.
In this case, you need to do the following:
- Place the cursor on the first (title) page;
- Go to the “Insert” tab;
- Select in the “Pages” group, “Cover page”;
- At the bottom of the drop-down block, click the “Delete current cover page” command.
How to Delete an Extra Page in Word
Before sending text to the printer, turn on the preview feature to see how the document will look when printed.
If blank sheets appear only when printing, but are not visible when viewing the document, then the document's print settings are incorrect.
It is enough to change them, and the document will take on a neat, readable appearance.
In my case, you can see that there is a blank page in the middle of the document.
To delete an extra page in a Word document, go to the page before it, set the courses at the bottom of the sheet and click Delete, deleting unnecessary characters.
How to Delete an Unneeded Page in Word
If you are familiar with typing, have written articles, and maybe even books, then I am sure you have encountered situations when the typed text becomes irrelevant.
Such text, which is no longer needed, can be deleted, but we must not forget about the consequences. Subsequent formatting should not change.
Place the cursor after the text to be deleted and press Ctrl + Enter, thereby creating a page break.
Select all unnecessary pages before the break using any method known to you and delete them with the Delete key.
How to remove extra paragraphs and unnecessary characters from a page
There are a lot of templates for text documents on the Internet and, very often, the user does not need to type the form himself, but simply download the document from the Internet.
This idea saves a lot of time, but still, you will have to slightly format the downloaded document and remove unnecessary characters that may appear for various reasons:
- incompatibility of editor versions;
- mistakes of the previous copywriter;
- software failure or crooked downloaded file;
- and many others.
Going to each line and pressing Del in the hope of getting to the right place is stupid, since Word has a “Show all icons” function.
When you click on the ¶ icon located on the “Home” tab, icons will be added to the document indicating the presence of unnecessary characters:
- “¶” - Enter is set (line break);
- " " - presence of a space;
- “→” - designation of lists;
- « ················Page break················" - added page break;
- and others.
Remove unnecessary characters on the Word document page to make the document look nice.
Deleting a paragraph after a table at the end of a document
When a document ends with a table and it reaches the very end of the page, a blank sheet may appear when printed. These are the text editor settings: after the table there is always an empty paragraph, which cannot be easily deleted; the editor settings do not provide such a function.
An empty paragraph can be hidden, then it will not be visible when viewed and will not be printed.
To delete a page after a table in Word, do:
- select a paragraph mark: you can do this by finding the icon on the main tab of the panel or by typing CTRL+SHIFT+8;
- press the key combination CTRL+D: the “Font” dialog box will open;
- find the window and check the “Hidden” checkbox;
- disable the paragraph mark (on the main panel or using hotkeys).
How to remove the last page at the end of a document
This method is the simplest, but is only suitable if the blank sheet is at the end of the document. The CTRL+END key combination will help you quickly go there.
Now, by pressing the BACKSPACE key, you can delete the empty paragraph of the last page. If there are several of them, you need to press the key as many times as necessary to delete all empty paragraphs.
When removing unnecessary paragraphs and pages, it is important to look at the final formatting of the text, especially if we are talking about important documents that have established formatting requirements.
Abstracts and coursework and dissertations require strict adherence to rules, which must be taken into account when setting or canceling page and section breaks.
Thus, it was discussed in detail how to delete a blank page in Word and not violate the formatting style of the document.
Of course, the methods described are suitable for use in a variety of cases and will help print text correctly, without unnecessary characters and extra pages.
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