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Otherwise, you don’t want your Word document to appear unprofessional. In this article, I’ll teach you how to eliminate blank and additional pages in Word.
- Use Word’s Ctrl + Page Up Windows keyboard shortcut.
To display a single page on a window, place the cursor at the start of the page after the one you wish to erase, then press the Delete key.
That is, you need to go to the top of page 3 and press Delete if you want to delete page 2 of your document. This works because the last code or symbol before the subsequent page must be a page break.
There isn’t another shortcut, so you have to manually move the pointer to the top of the current page. This means that you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Page Up even if the page is actually blank.
- Using the Navigation pane in Word to erase a page.
The simplest way to delete a single page In Word is conceivably to use the Navigation pane. Only a few clicks are required:
- Select the Navigation pane from the Show group by clicking the View tab.
- Select Pages from the Navigation window.
- Press Delete after selecting the blank page.
To add a paragraph mark, press Delete once for each new line.
Where there isn’t a definite page split to delete, what should you do?
- What to do in Word if you can’t eliminate a hard page split.
To force a new page, use hardline returns.
A blank page is produced by using hard paragraph returns, often known as paragraph markers.
Pressing the ENTER key is represented visually by the paragraph markers.
The paragraph markings on the page shown in the picture above can all be selected and deleted by pressing the DELETE key.
Simply hit ERASE until you reach the bottom of the preceding page after clicking inside the document’s final page.
Final reflections
- There’s a strong probability you can do away with the page break in this case without changing any content. You wouldn’t believe how regularly this scenario happens. As a result, I suggest enabling Show/Hide when correcting particular page breaks.
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Article written by Bahati KE, an independent freelancer on Apexlistings
