Hello again! Today we will talk about such a seemingly simple topic as deleting pages in a Word document. Of course, this operation is unlikely to cause any particular difficulties. The only thing you need to consider is which page you want to delete - with or without text, and where it is located - at the beginning, end or middle of the document. In Word, and here there are ways of working that you probably do not know about. These tricky moments moments today and consider.
As usual, we will cover the topic with a few simple examples in different versions of the program. And at the end of the article posted a short video. So, let's study the material.
If you have an unnecessary page with text that needs to be deleted, you can do this as follows. The first thing to do is to place the cursor anywhere on the page to be deleted. After that, in the upper right corner of the document on the main panel, we find the “find” button. A binoculars icon is shown next to it. Click on it and in the drop-down menu, click on the inscription "Go".
A window will open in front of us in which the search object is selected. In our case, this is the page and it is the first one by default, and is already selected.
Nearby there is only one field "Enter page number". Here we type “\page”, after which we press the “go” button. As a result, all text on the page will be highlighted. It remains only to press the "DELETE" key and the page with this text will disappear.
In fact, this procedure is the removal of only unnecessary text, and not the page itself. After all, the text that comes after the deleted text rises higher, replacing what was before. Therefore, there is a much easier way to delete pages like this. Just select by holding the left. The mouse button all the text on the page and also press the "DELETE" button.
If your document contains headers and footers, and an empty last page has formed at the input of the work, then deleting it is very simple. We put the cursor on the previous page and press the "DELETE" key, by pressing it repeatedly we remove the empty page. It is possible to include non-printing characters before the start of the operation, so that it would be easier to navigate the deleted pages.
The appearance of an extra blank page is most often associated with the use of breaks. We do not see all this in the usual format. To display them, use a special button on the main panel. However, many people like to type with the display of non-printing characters turned on. So, turn on the visibility of these non-printable characters: ¶.
Then select them on the page to be deleted and press the Delete or BackSpace key. As a result, the page will be deleted.
When deleting an unnecessary page in a Word document version 2013, you must enable the display of non-printing characters. After that, we put the cursor in the place where the last non-printing character is displayed before the page to be deleted. By pressing the Delete key several times, we delete an unnecessary page.
You can also delete a page using the page break options. You can open them from the "Paragraph" tab on the main menu bar.
In the first tab "Indents and Spacing" large values can be set to Before or After the interval. In the second tab "Position on the page" you need to check the value of the "pagination" section. After checking the correctness of the settings and removing the excess, you can safely remove the unnecessary.
To remove a blank page at the end of the document, we will use a fairly simple action. We set the cursor at the end of the previous page and by repeatedly pressing the "delete" key, we delete invisible lines. For convenience, we include these non-printable characters. Then you can select them all on the page to be deleted, and then simply press the Delete key. And at the end of the topic, a short video on deleting pages in the Word.
Here, in principle, all the simple steps to remove unnecessary pages. Although everything is simple, but you need to know some tricks. That's all for now.
MS Word is one of the most popular text editors. Its functionality is very wide. So, there are at least three ways to delete a blank page in Word. Let's consider each of them in more detail.
There is a special sign on the Toolbar called " Show all symbols". In the screenshot below, it is marked in red. To delete an extra page, you need to place the cursor on an unnecessary sheet...
press the key combination or the " ¶ ».
After activating the function, special characters will be displayed on the page, which are responsible for formatting the text. They are invisible in normal display mode. They need to be removed with the " backspace” (it looks like a “left arrow” above “ Enter") or " Delete» (Del). After that, the blank sheet will automatically disappear.
In versions of MS Word 2007 - 2010, this button is located in the main section.
For the convenience of further work, you should disable the button for displaying all symbols " ¶ ". To do this, just click on it again.
If you need to delete several pages, then you should put the cursor at the beginning of the document, scroll to the end, hold down Shift and click the mouse again. The selected part of the text must be deleted using the " Delete" or " backspace».
Here's how to quickly and easily delete a blank page in Word.
Let's consider an alternative way to delete a blank page in Word 2007 and 2008. First of all, you need to place the cursor in the place on the page from which you want to delete information. It can be either the very beginning or the middle of the text. Further in the section home” should go to the subsection “ Find» …
in a new window, open the tab "".
In the search bar of the new window, indicate the number of the page from which you want to delete information and click the "" button. If the extra sheet has been filled with information, then a highlighted text will appear, which will be deleted.
If you need to delete a blank page in Word, then selected paragraphs will appear.
It remains to close the window and press the " Delete», « backspace' or space.
Consider how you can remove a blank page in Word before or after special characters.
If the information in the file starts with a paragraph, then sometimes the first page in the document is left blank. For the convenience of further work, it should be removed. For this you need:
1. Enable the Show All Items button on the panel.
2. Place the cursor at the beginning of the sheet.
3. Hold LMB and drag the mouse down, coloring all the special characters.
4. Press the key " Delete" or " backspace».
5. To remove an extra page in Word at the end of a file, you must place the cursor at the beginning of the last sheet and follow the same steps.
You can delete an extra paragraph in the test in an alternative way. So, you should place the cursor before an extra paragraph (usually it forms an empty line on the page) and replace two consecutive characters with one paragraph character. To do this, in the menu Edit» – « Replace…" in field " Find» enter a space (press the space). Click the button at the bottom of the window More", then " Special” and the menu that appears, select “ paragraph mark". In field " Find» appears « ^p". In field " Replace" insert " paragraph mark» - « ^p". Press the button " Find next". It remains only to press the button " Replace everything».
A blank page may appear inside a text file as a result of a page break. Because this special element is not visible in the standard view, you must:
If the text contains a table, then after it a blank sheet is formed, which is quite difficult to remove. By default, Word inserts a paragraph after the table. If the table is located at the end, then the paragraph is moved below, creating a blank sheet. It cannot be removed by the methods described earlier. How to be?
In the lesson "How to delete a page in Word 2007" we will learn how to delete blank pages and pages with text inside a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document.
Our task: Learn how to delete pages inside a Microsoft Word document.
What do we need: An installed Microsoft Office suite and any document with a .doc or .docx extension. You can download the Microsoft Office Word program from the website of the program developer - Microsoft Word
Let's take a look at two tasks that we will encounter on a daily basis: removing a blank page from a document and removing a page with content.
Let's say we have a document in the format "document.docx" (Word 2007) or "document.doc" (Word 2003).
Fig 1. Microsoft Word file in a folder
We open our document, it contains several pages of text and possibly with pictures and, say, 5 pages. The number of pages in the document is shown in the lower left corner of the program:
Fig 2. Opened Word file with text with 5 pages
Suppose we must be removed 3rd page in this document:
Fig 3. 3rd page of our document
To delete the content of this particular page, we can use two options:
Scroll through the document with the mouse wheel to the beginning of the 3rd page. Next, move the mouse cursor over the fields opposite the topmost line until the cursor changes to a “white arrow”:
Fig 4. How to select the entire line of the document
We left-click on the topmost line of the page, after which the line should look like a selection:
Fig 5. Selecting the entire line on the document page
Hold down the "Shift" key on the keyboard and click on the last line of the current sheet:
Fig 6. Select the line at the very end of the page
Now all the text on the page to be deleted is selected. Next, press the key on the keyboard "Del" or "Delete":
Fig 7. Result after pressing the "Delete" key
Now page removed. If you don't like this option, there is another one.
We find the page to be deleted (let's say we want to delete page number 3). Left click anywhere on this page. After that, press the key combination on the keyboard "Ctrl + F". The Find and Replace dialog box will open:
Fig 8. Find and Replace dialog box
In this window we see three tabs: "Find", "Replace" and "Go". Now we are interested in the “Go to” tab, left-click on the tab, we will see the contents of this tab:
Figure 9 Contents of the Go To tab of the Find and Replace window
Fig 10. Necessary manipulations to select a page
After clicking on the "Go" button, the contents of the page on which the cursor was located will be highlighted completely. Next, click the "Close" button in the "Find and Replace" dialog box:
Figure 11. Closing the Find and Replace dialog box
Now we see that the content of the required page is fully selected, after that we press the "Delete" key on the keyboard.
From the lesson, we learned that we can delete a page in a Word in two ways. Which one is the most convenient is up to you.
Since ancient times, the folk truth has been saying: “what is written with a pen, everything is bye-bye, you can’t cut it down with an ax.” No, cunning and resourceful comrades can, of course, object here. So to speak, to counterbalance the argument. And why, for example, not tear out a sheet with spellings that are no longer needed, but throw it out - in a basket, or burn it altogether. It is possible, and what is not! But you have to work hard, sweat, sweat ... Especially if the pages need to be quietly destroyed in some report, diary, journal or (God forbid!) art book.
Is it another matter to delete a page in Word. That's where the freedom of action and completeness of sensations from editing a virtual canvas for writing. No transaction costs, no signs of "execution" over the sheet, whether it is empty or with words. In short, a custom grace.
However, you need to know where these very buttons for this very thing are located and how to manage them correctly. Don't know yet? Then check out the instructions below. And your work in Word will become much more comfortable.
The sheet is removed from the project in various ways and functions, depending on the specific situation, the user task.
1. Position the cursor on a blank page to be deleted.
2. Press the Ctrl + Shift + 8 keys at the same time. Or click the ¶ (show all characters) icon in the Word interface panel.
3. After activating this function, special control characters will be displayed on a blank page. They are responsible for text formatting, and in the normal text display mode they remain invisible. Delete them with the "backspace" button ("left arrow" above "Enter") or "Delete" (Del). After cleaning, the blank sheet will automatically disappear.
1. Place the cursor anywhere in the text on the page you want to get rid of.
2. Left-click on the "Find" option (leftmost block in the top panel of Word).
3. In the drop-down menu, select "Go to ...".
4. In the additional Find and Replace window, on the Go To tab, select the Page transition object.
5. In the "Enter a number ..." field, type the directive - \page.
6. Click on the "Go" button. The text on the selected page will be highlighted.
7. Click "Close" and then press the "DELETE" key.
1. Select all the text on the page to be deleted: holding the left mouse button, move the cursor from the beginning to the end of the sheet.
2. Click "Delete".
Left-click on the “left arrow” icon (cancel the operation) or press Ctrl + Z, and the disappeared page will reappear in the project.
Enjoy using Word!
It just so happens that when typing and editing text, an extra page appears, which interferes in the future when saving and printing a document. At the same time, knowing Word thoroughly how to delete a blank page, you may not know. And if you, for example, have Word 2007, how to delete a page will be a disaster for you. How to delete a page in Word (2010, 2007, 2003)? Let's try to deal with all these issues one by one.
There are several ways to delete a blank page:
Any separate non-blank page of the document can simply be selected with the mouse in black and deleted using the DELETE button.
Sometimes there are paragraphs without typed text, blank spaces, and simply blank parts in a document. This results in a blank page at the end of the file. How to delete a page in Word at the end of a document? At first it may seem, why do these senseless gestures, but everything will become clear when the document is printed. The last page to come out of the printer is a blank page!
To remove a blank page at the end of a document, the following steps are required:
