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Microsoft Word users may run into this problem from time to time: a blank page either in the middle or at the end of a document that cannot seem to be deleted. Frustrating! You can choose to print only select pages, but that doesn’t exactly solve the problem.

Here are some possible steps to delete your unwanted blank page. The video above will also walk through these steps.

Basic solutions

How to delete a blank page in word 2011 mac

You can also toggle between displaying and hiding formatting marks. To do so: In Word for Windows, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the paragraph icon. In Word for Mac OS X, click the paragraph icon in the Standard toolbar. If you don't see the icon, from the View menu, choose Toolbars, and then check Standard. Use the Find and Replace tool to delete extra breaks in a document. Go to the Home tab and, in the Editing group, select Replace. Or, press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box. In Word for Mac, use the Search box in the upper-right corner of the document. In the Find what text box, enter ^p^p (the letter p must be lower case).

The most basic solution: go to your unwanted blank page, click as close to the bottom of the page as you can get, and press your backspace key until the page is removed.
Go to the VIEW tab, select Navigation Pane in the Show section, select the blank page thumbnail in the left panel, and press your delete key until it is removed.
Check your sections: Go to the PAGE LAYOUT tab, click the Margins button, and select Custom Margins. Click the Layout tab. In the drop-down menu next to Section start, make sure that New page is selected. Click OK.

Use paragraph symbols

Detect what’s on the page by displaying paragraph marks and formatting symbols. Look on your blank page to see if there are any symbols, especially the paragraph mark,
or ¶. Select the symbol and delete it, and you will likely also delete your blank page.
If your blank page is in the middle of the document, it may be due to a manual page break. With paragraph marks turned on, you will be able to see the page break. Select it and delete it.

Trouble with tables

If there is a table at the end of your document, Word will automatically insert a paragraph after it, often resulting in a blank page at the end. While you can’t delete this inserted paragraph, you can make it extra small so it doesn’t cause a new page to be displayed. With paragraph marks turned on, select the paragraph symbol and change the font size to 1 point.
If you still see a paragraph mark on the blank page, change the spacing around it. Select the paragraph symbol, go to the Paragraph section and launch the Paragraph formatting dialog box by clicking the pop-out icon in the lower right corner of the section. On the Indents and Spacing tab, change any spacing before or after the paragraph to 0. Change the Line spacing to 0. Click OK.
If those two options didn’t work, you can hide the paragraph. Select the paragraph symbol, and launch the Font dialog box by clicking the pop-out icon in the lower-right corner of the Font section on the HOME tab. Select the Hidden check box in the Effects section and click OK.

Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Even with the latest Office versions this is still the preferred way of deleting a blank page in Word, and it seems that it will remain so.

Updated for 2021

How to remove all page breaks in Word?

Working with a long document, we may need to insert page breaks to start a new page with a specific paragraph. We can set options to control where Word positions automatic page breaks, but only manual page break is removable. This tutorial is telling us how to remove page breaks in several ways.

How Do You Delete A Blank Page In Word 2013

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Remove a page break in word by pressing Delete key

1. If you cannot see the page breaks showing in the document, you need to show them by clicking Home > Show/HideEditing Marks button. See screenshot

2. Highlight the whole page break line, or place the cursor directly to the left of the page break line,

2. Then press the Delete key on your keyboard.

It is easy to use the above way to remove a page break in word, but how to remove dozens of page breaks? It is feasible to press the “Ctrl” key to select all page breaks and then press Delete key, but it seems time-consuming if the document has more than 100 pages.

Remove all breaks (page breaks, column breaks, section breaks, all breaks) in selection or the whole document with one click

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Remove all page breaks using Find and Replace

Compared with the first method, the Find and Replace option saves you much time. You don’t need to select all page breaks one by one through a long document, and just a few steps will have it done.

Please apply this utility by clicking Home > Replace.

It will display a Find and Replace dialog. Click More>> button to show more options. See screenshot:

How To Delete A Blank Page In Word 2011 Mac

3. Place the cursor in the Find What field, and select the Manual Page Break from the Special pull-down menu.

4. There will be a “^m” character in the Find What field, and click Replace All.

Remove all page breaks with Kutools for Word

With Kutools for Word, it has never been so easy to remove all page breaks in the whole or the selection of a document.

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After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Word Now!)

1. Cclick Kutools > Breaks > Remove Page Breaks. See screenshot:

2. After clicking Remove Page Breaks, a dialog pops out to remind you if remoev all page breaks from the whole documents, click Yes to continue.

Then all page breaks in the whole document or all the page breaks from the selected part of the document will be removed. See screenshots:

Note:
1. Only Kutools for Word will keep all formatting after removing page breaks in the document.
2. Remove Page Breaks also works at selection. Before applying Remove Page Breaks, select the paragraphs you want to remove the page breaks.

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