How to delete a blank page in Word.

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Are you having trouble getting rid of a pesky blank page in your document? Learn how to remove a blank page in Word using a few different methods.

Formatting in Microsoft Word isn’t always friendly. Depending on your margins and layout, it’s not uncommon for blank pages to appear that seem to be undeletable. Luckily, that’s not really the case. Try these two methods to remove blank pages in your Word documents.

How to delete a blank page in Word documents.

Whether you use a Windows or Mac computer, you can delete a blank page in Word documents easily by following these steps:
To delete a page in Word with content on Windows, you can:

Click anywhere on the page you want to delete.
Press Ctrl+G. In the Enter page number box, type “\page.”
Press Enter on your keyboard.
Select Close.
Verify that a page of content is selected, and then press Delete on your keyboard.

To delete a page in Word with content on a Mac, you can:

Click anywhere on the page you want to delete.
Press Option+Command+G.
In the Enter page number box, type “\page.”
Press Enter on your keyboard.
Select Close.
Verify that a page of content is selected, and then press Delete on your keyboard.

How to delete a blank page in the middle of a Word document.

To delete a blank page in the middle of your Word document, you can follow these simple steps:

Open up the Navigation panel by selecting the View tab and making sure the Navigation panel box is ticked.
When the sidebar on the left opens, select Pages to show all the pages in your document.
In the Navigation panel, select the blank page you want to remove.
Press the Delete key on your keyboard.
The blank page will be removed automatically.

How to delete a blank page in Word by making paragraphs fit.

The most common reason for pesky blank pages in a Word document is that the “paragraph” on the blank page doesn’t fit on the page before it. When there’s no space for another line, Word pushes it to the following page. No matter how many times you try to backspace, there’s simply no room, and the blank page remains.

A workaround for this problem is to change the font size on the blank page’s paragraph. Here’s how:

Press Control+Shift+8 if you’re using a Windows computer or Command+8 on a Mac. This way, you can see all the paragraph marks on your document.
Select the paragraph mark.
Select the inside the Font size box and type 01. Then press Enter.
The paragraph should now fit on the preceding page, which will remove the unwanted blank page.
Press Control+Shift+8 again to hide the paragraph marks.

It will remove the blank page and shrink the paragraph to fit on the previous page. You can then press Control+Shift+8 (or Command+8) to hide the paragraph marks again.

How to delete an extra blank page in a Word document.

If you have an extra blank page at the end of the Word document you are working on, you can delete it by making the end paragraph fit onto the preceding page.

You can follow these steps to delete that extra blank page at the end of a Word document:

Press Control+Shift+8 if you’re using a Windows computer or Command+8 on a Mac. This way, you can see all the paragraph marks on your document.
Select the paragraph mark.
Select the inside the Font size box and type 01. Then, press Enter.
The paragraph should now fit on the preceding page, which will remove the unwanted blank page.
Press Control+Shift+8 again to hide the paragraph marks.

In case the paragraph still doesn’t quite fit on the preceding page, you can also make the bottom margin smaller by following these instructions:

Click the Layout tab.
Select Margins, then Custom Margins.
Set the bottom margin to something small, like 0.3 inches.

If the paragraph mark has a bullet next to it, the paragraph may have the Page Break Before option turned on. To turn it off, right-select the empty paragraph, select Paragraph Settings (Home tab), and uncheck Page Break Before on the Lines and Page Breaks tab of the dialog box.

Remove a blank page in Word using an online PDF editor.

If you’d rather take fewer steps to remove a blank page in Word, you can use a PDF editor like Adobe Acrobat online services to actually extract PDF pages online. Just save your Word document as a PDF (blank page and all), and follow these steps:

Go to the Extract PDF pages tool.
Upload your file.
Select the blank page you want to extract.
Download the new PDF file.