• How to delete the first page in Word. Deleting and creating pages in the Microsoft Word text editor


    It happens that users find themselves in a difficult situation, not understanding how to get out of a difficult situation. Some people can't even figure out how to delete a page in a WORD text editor. A large number of representatives of society use this text editor to create, edit and read certain documents used in various areas of the modern world. Today we will figure out how to delete a page with or without text without disturbing the structure of the entire document as a whole. There are only 6 methods, and today they will be discussed.


    The first method is to delete an unnecessary text document.

    It happens that a person creates a new file, types text into it, then copies it to the clipboard, and he no longer needs this file, you can get rid of it right away. It is enough to agree to close the program and indicate that there is no need to save the changes.

    If you decide to remain in this document, only by deleting the text, you just need to use keyboard shortcuts. First, select all the text, and then click on the Delete button. Thus, the text will be deleted, and the text document is ready for further work.

    The second method is to delete a blank sheet in the editor.

    Having decided to delete a blank page, you need to use the following manipulations:
    1) Place the cursor at the desired location and delete.
    2) Select the corresponding icon, which is shown in the image, or simultaneously press three keys: CTRL – SHIFT – 8.

    After pressing these keys, paragraph icons will appear, and you can select everything that needs to be subjected to the destruction process, and simply click on the button called BackSpace. After this, the page will clear, thereby indicating that you have achieved the task.

    The third method is Deleting the last blank sheet.

    Sometimes at the end of any text document there are several or one blank pages that require interaction. To quickly fix this problem, you will need to enable special characters, go to the last sheet, press the BackSpace button there, thereby agreeing to format the page.

    The fourth method is to quickly delete a page that contains text.

    If you need to delete a page that, in addition to text, also contained a whole bunch of images and other similar elements, then using special commands in a text editor or cursor, we carry out the necessary manipulations.

    Let's say we have a document and we need to delete the second page in this document.

    Scroll through the document to the beginning of the page that should be deleted. We move the cursor over the beginning of the line until an arrow appears, and press the left mouse button, thereby selecting the entire line, and using the mouse wheel, go down to the line that ends the page, and then simply click on the Delete button, thereby deleting the entire text fragment.

    With this method you can delete multiple pages. You do not need any special knowledge, just a light action with your hands, and thereby the results will be achieved.

    It happens that you need to delete not the first page at all, but, say, some 433, and going down to this page is a tedious and tedious process. We suggest you save time by using the information below. First, you need to open the search menu, to do this, press two buttons on the keyboard - CTRL - F.

    Select the tab called “Go” and indicate the page number we need.

    Thus, you were able to go to the page you need, after that we close the search window, and again, using our existing knowledge, we delete the text information that seems unnecessary to you on the page. If you accidentally deleted something wrong, then there is no need to be upset, because everything can be returned to its original values ​​by clicking on the “Cancel” button.

    The fifth method is to remove the title page.

    Using the 2013 version of the text editor, you don’t need to do anything, because the title page is replaced automatically, but in earlier versions of this software, all actions must be done manually.

    You can remove a cover page using the following steps:

    Select the tab called “Insert” in the editor.
    - Go to the “Pages” group.
    - A menu called “Cover Page”, you must specify a value for the page to be deleted.

    If you are using versions earlier than 2007, there is no need to remove cover pages either, because they look exactly the same as all other pages in your document.

    The sixth method is to delete the page without losing the printed text.

    It turned out that without removing pages, you can ensure that the text looks compact, thereby increasing the free space, and there are also significantly fewer sheets for printing. To achieve this result, you must again click on the button responsible for headers and footers and invisible characters.

    As a result of text editing, unnecessary blank pages appeared in your document, or are you unable to remove the extra sheet at the end of the document? Let's figure out what needs to be done to delete a page in MS Word.

    Let's start with How to remove a blank page in the middle of a Word document. Most often, such pages in a document appear due to a large number of unprintable characters on them - you have deleted all the text, but the hidden characters remain. This includes page breaks, spaces, and new lines.

    You can enable non-printing characters by clicking on the corresponding button on the “Home” tab.

    To delete them, move your mouse to the left margin of the document and select all the characters. If you have several blank pages in the middle of a document, you can place the cursor at the beginning of the page you want to delete, hold down “Shift” and place the cursor at the end of another page. Now press "Delete" or "Backspace".

    Blank pages in Word in the middle of a document can also appear due to page breaks. They usually separate the beginning of a new chapter from the previous text. Or maybe you just accidentally pressed the key combination “Ctrl+Enter”.

    To delete such a page, place the cursor on the last line (or at the end of the text) on the previous page, then click "Delete".

    The blank page will be removed and the text will rise.

    Now let's consider how to delete a page in Word that is located at the end of a document. By turning on non-printing characters, you will see that they are present on the page. It could even be several new line characters. Select them with the mouse and press the “Delete” or “Backspace” key. You can also place the cursor at the end of the text and hold down the Delete key until the empty sheet disappears.

    That's all. Now you know how you can delete a page in Word. Moreover, these recommendations are applicable in any MS Word: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013.

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    It would seem that the simplest task of how to delete a blank page in Word can result in a huge note with all the nuances of sections, breaks and other invisible characters. An office suite seems simple only at first glance, until there is a need to create a high-quality document.

    This problem usually plagues users who edit documents created by other people. Not because they are smarter, it’s about invisible symbols and many other nuances of the office suite - we will work on all these little things in today’s post!

    I looked at what people write here on the Internet about this issue - I’m shocked! See for yourself - to delete a page in Word, we need to delete the text from it. Can I delete the entire document at once? - We will definitely delete the document and the page in it, take it into account!

    Just a brain explosion! Of course, I understand that the author wanted to stretch the text as much as possible so that you would stay longer on his site... and the method works - you can’t argue with that, but I want to tell you about the root of the problem of blank pages in Word and options for eliminating them.

    If the poor and empty page is at the very end of the document, then you can try to delete it blindly. As a rule, there are a couple of extra paragraphs that we don’t see (and they are). Point the cursor anywhere in the document and press the key combination CTRL + END (this will move us to the real end of the document, and not the one visible to us) and press the “Backspace” button to delete all invisible characters on the page.

    There may be several such paragraphs and therefore you will have to press Backspace several times (but if you hit the backspace button and returned to the beginning of the document, then the problem is not hidden paragraphs)

    The reason for the appearance of blank pages in Word is a witch hunt!

    As I already said at the very beginning of the note, the main problem with blank pages in Word is the lack of a complete picture of the document being edited. To gain full control over the document, let’s turn on the display of paragraph marks and other hidden formatting marks.

    This functionality is present in any version of Word. (even in 2003 and older). Surely many people panicked after accidentally activating this mode... what previously unknown characters appeared in my document and what should I do with them?!

    To enable the display of hidden symbols, do the following:

    1. In the Microsoft Word ribbon, go to the “Home” tab and look for the “¶” button (show all characters) or use hotkeys “CTRL + *”. Many people recommend CTRL + SHIFT + 8 since SHIFT + 8 gives a star... this is a bit counterintuitive (unless you have a laptop with a reduced keyboard), the asterisk is convenient to press on the numeric keypad - all missing characters are typed exclusively from the numeric keypad.
    2. After activating this crazy mode, all paragraphs will be marked with the sign “¶” and they can be easily identified on the page and therefore figure out how to delete a blank page in Word!

    I decided to copy part of the note into a Word document, selected the fragment and pasted it onto the page... and at the end another empty paragraph was added - if it had been on another page, you would never have seen it without activating the view all characters mode

    Invisible (blank) paragraphs

    Quite often there are extra paragraphs on a blank page - therefore the page is not empty and it is logical that it does not disappear. You already know that you can activate the display of hidden paragraphs by clicking the “¶” button on the Office Options ribbon. Just select the extra paragraphs and delete them with the “Delete” button (or any other way known to you)

    If there are really extra paragraphs in the document, then after they are deleted the extra page will disappear.

    The all-time leader after empty paragraphs in the reasons for the appearance of a blank page is forced breaks that users manually added to the page. As usual, we turn on the display of hidden signs and symbols and see this very page break - delete it and rejoice that we deleted the empty page in Word!

    A blank page may also be inside the document itself due to a defined break. Similarly, we considered the situation with - sections and breaks are also to blame

    Let's move on to the most interesting part of the note - these are the sections! If you are just learning MS WORD, then this is probably the reason that is incomprehensible to you and irritates you the most.

    Sections are used for different page layouts (numbering, headers, footers, frames and other settings are individual for each section)

    When you set a section break, you have three options to choose from:

    1. From an even page;
    2. From odd page;
    3. From the next page;

    Now imagine the situation - you finished the document, made a conclusion and, out of habit, completed the section by clicking “From the next page”... here you have a new empty section at the end of the document. And as you already understood, a section in Word can be deleted only by turning on the display of hidden characters and paragraphs.

    Turn on showing hidden characters and remove the section break (don’t forget that DELETE deletes to the right of the cursor, and backspace deletes to the left)

    I would like to draw your attention to one very important point. If there is a blank page at the end of the document, this nuance can be neglected! Look what happens - if there is a blank page in the middle of the document, then by removing the section break we risk resetting all the stylistic settings of the next section (this includes numbering and frames...) because their unification will take place.

    For such a situation, it would be correct to change the break type to “Break on the current page”, which is what I write about in the addition to this paragraph.

    Gap on the current page is the solution to our problem

    To delete a blank page in Word, change the type of break on the page:

    1. We poke the cursor into the place immediately after the break of the section that bothers us;
    2. On the “Layout” tab (Page Layout), click “Page Options” (was it hidden well?)

    1. On the “Paper Source” tab, in the “Start Section” section, change the parameter to “On the current page” and do not forget to click “OK”

    After all this, the blank page will be deleted. In general, there is nothing difficult in understanding how section breaks work and why they exist at all. It is worth noting that when creating a document yourself, such situations practically do not arise - all due to the different level of knowledge of the user of the office suite

    There is a table in the document

    What's the problem with the table? — After the table there is always an empty paragraph, which you cannot delete in any way using all the above methods (otherwise you think why did I put it in a separate paragraph...)

    If the table border fits exactly to the end of the page frame, then this invisible paragraph will go to the next page and will not allow it to be deleted - I specifically showed this in the picture below!

    If you do not see the hidden paragraph, then on the “Home” tab you forgot to activate the view mode for all characters “¶”

    Unfortunately, it is impossible to simply select and delete such a paragraph - a different approach and trick are needed here:

    1. Select this very paragraph symbol (¶) and right-click select “Font...” (if you don’t have the skill to select this stupid character, you can use the combination CTRL + D)

    1. Check the “Hidden” box and don’t forget to click “ok”.

    Nothing has changed and there is still a blank page with an empty paragraph after the table? — This is because you need to remove the display of hidden characters... on the “Home” tab, deactivate the “¶” mode and the blank page after the table will disappear.

    This is how we were able to delete a blank page in Word after the table - nothing complicated!

    What's the result?

    Let's summarize - we looked at several ways to delete a blank page in Word. I think you already understand that no text means no page... however, there are nuances with sections and paragraphs that interfere with a simple perception of the contents of the document (but this is as long as you read the note) and once you understand how it works, removing a page becomes very easy!

    When working with text in Word, page breaks and section breaks are often used. Subsequently, unnecessary paragraphs appear, which means extra empty sheets in the Word file. If after the option with the “Delete” or “Backspace” button the page is not deleted, then it is worth considering the option of deleting the page using a formatting sign. There are several options for deleting an extra page with content or a completely empty blank sheet. The methods that will be described below work in almost all versions of Microsoft Word - 2007, 2010, as well as 2013 and 2016.

    Extra paragraphs

    You can delete a sheet by removing unnecessary paragraphs. To understand whether there are extra paragraphs in the document, you need to click on the “Display all characters” button in the main menu. To do this, open the “Home” menu, find and click on this symbol.

    Unnecessary paragraphs cause blank pages. When all the text is accompanied by the symbol, then it is easy to see unnecessary paragraphs.

    You must select and delete by clicking on the “Delete” button.

    Page break

    This method is a little similar to the method above. To see where a page or section break was made, you should turn on the already familiar button. Scroll through the document and find the page you want to delete. Place the cursor before or after the page break, as shown in the screenshot below, and click on the “Delete” button. When placing the mouse pointer after the break, you must use the "Backspace" button.

    Paragraph after table

    For example, the article has a table, probably also at the end of the page. This is the reason for the appearance of a blank unnecessary sheet. Most often, after the table, MS Word automatically adds a paragraph, which, unfortunately, cannot be deleted using the two above methods. In our case, the blank page was the last one, so here's how you can solve the problem with deleting it.

    Naturally, we need the help of the symbol, turn it on and return to the blank sheet.

    This is what it will look like after turning on the display of all signs.

    A symbol that is completely alone and creates an extra page with its presence. You need to remove it with the following steps.

    1) Select a character on a blank page and press the key combination “Ctrl + D”;

    2) In the “Font” window, check the “Hidden” function;

    4) Disable the symbol (when disabled it does not light up in yellow) or use the key combination “Ctrl + Shift + 8”;

    5) The blank sheet has been removed.

    Section Break Correction

    If you use "From Even Page" or "From Odd Page" section breaks, then a blank page will appear. It will not work to remove this sheet using the “Cut” or “delete with the Del” key combination. If a blank page appears in the middle of a document, then deleting it will destroy all text formatting. You can fix this problem, you just need to replace the “on current page” section break. This way, all text formatting will be preserved without adding a blank sheet. The following steps can replace the section break with "Break on Current Page". To do this you need:

    The blank page will be deleted without causing damage to the entire document.

    Hi all! Today we will look at how to delete a page in Word. It would seem that it would be as easy as shelling pears to do this by pressing a couple of keys on the keyboard, but as practice shows, many users encountering this problem cannot solve it on their own. If you find yourself in this situation and your Microsoft Word text document contains a blank page, then it means there are hidden paragraphs or breaks that the user manually added. When editing a document, it is recommended to delete such pages, since they will later end up in the paper document printed on the printer.

    If you have just recently started working in Microsoft Office, then we will consider the simplest method. To delete an unnecessary page in Word, select all or part of the text on the page and press the “Delete” or “Backspace” button on the keyboard.

    Typically, the page should disappear along with the text if there is nothing else left on it. Since this method is the simplest, you may have already tried it.

    If a text document contains a blank page, most often at the end, and it is not deleted automatically, then go to the very bottom by pressing the “Ctrl+End” key combination, and then press the “Backspace” key to delete all hidden information. It is most likely that such a page will be deleted if it had hidden paragraphs or breaks that the user inserted accidentally.

    Pay attention! Often, a blank page contains several empty paragraphs and in order to delete them, you need to press the Backspace key several times.

    If, after the manipulations done, the blank page has not gone away, then most likely the problem lies elsewhere and to solve it, read the information below.

    What causes blank pages to appear and how to remove them in Word

    It is not always clear why a blank page appears in a Word text document. To understand this, you need to enable the display of paragraph characters.

    By the way, this function is enabled in all versions of Microsoft Word, with its help we can figure out how to delete a page in Word.

    To do this, we perform the following steps:


    Blank paragraphs

    As a rule, such empty paragraphs prevent you from deleting pages. Since they are now marked, we select our symbols “¶” and press the “Delete” button.

    If there were hidden paragraphs, then after they are deleted, the unnecessary page will also be deleted.

    Forced page break is set.

    Very often, blank pages appear due to forced breaks that are manually added by the user. To delete it, you need to place the mouse cursor before the page break and press the “Delete” key.

    Pay attention! Very often, a blank page appears in the middle of a document due to incorrectly placed breaks. So, pay attention for now.

    A section break has been set.

    Another important point that can cause a blank page to appear in a document is a set section break. Such a gap can be established in three ways:

    • From an even page;
    • From odd page;
    • From the next page;

    If the blank page is at the very end of your document, then in order to delete it you need to position the mouse cursor before the section break and press the “Delete” key.

    Pay attention! There are times when users cannot see where the page break is set. In this case, you need to open the “View” tab in the Word menu bar and switch to draft mode.


    I would also like to draw your attention to the case when, after removing page breaks, the formatting of the document is lost.

    In this case, if you need the text formatting to remain unchanged after the break, then deleting such a break is not recommended. Because if you delete a section break, the formatting that was applied after that section break will also be applied to the text that is located above that break.

    To get out of this situation, you need to set the break type: “Break on the current page” (read how to do this below), thereby preserving the text formatting and not adding a blank page.

    Set the break type: “Break on current page”

    In order to change the type of break on a Microsoft Word document page, do the following:


    After the settings have been made, the blank page will be deleted. As you can see, to solve the problem of how to delete a page in Word you don’t need to have a lot of knowledge. If the problem is still not solved, I recommend paying attention to one more point.

    The table is installed.

    If the methods listed above did not help you, and there is a blank page in your text document, then pay attention to whether there is a table in front of the blank page. The fact is that if there is a table on the penultimate page of the document and it reaches the very edge of the sheet, then after it a blank page will certainly appear. This happens because after the table there must be an empty paragraph, and since the table reaches the edge of the page, the paragraph is transferred to the next sheet.

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