Found a random blank page in your Word document? We’re here to help. Learn how to delete a page in Word quickly and easily with this guide.
Microsoft Word is the industry standard for word processing software. However, the formatting is not always as user-friendly as you might like. Depending on your layout, you might come across one or two blank pages. Often, it can seem impossible to delete them – but we’re here to tell you that’s not really the case.
Take a look at the different options you can try to remove unwanted blank pages in your Word documents.
How to delete a blank page in Word.
In this guide:
How to delete a page in Word on Windows.
How to delete a page in Word on Mac.
How to delete a blank page in the middle of a Word document.
How to delete an extra blank page at the end of a Word document.
How to remove a blank page in Word with an online PDF editor.
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How to delete a page in Word on Windows.
Accessing Microsoft Word on a Windows computer? Simply follow these six steps to delete a blank page in Word:
Left-click anywhere on the page to be deleted.
Press Ctrl+G.
Go to the box that says, “Enter page number” and type “\page”.
Press the Enter key.
Close the pop-up.
Double check that the correct page is selected, then press the Delete key.
How to delete a page in Word on Mac.
If you’re using Microsoft on a macOS system, the process for deleting a page in Word will differ slightly from Windows. Instead, you’ll need to:
Click anywhere on the page you want to delete.
Hold down Option+Command+G.
In the “Enter page number” box, type “\page”.
Press Enter.
Click to close.
Again, check you’ve chosen the correct page, and press Delete.
How to delete a blank page in the middle of a Word document.
If your blank page is located in the very middle of your Word document, you can try a different method to delete the page:
Select the “View” tab at the top of the screen.
Look for the “Navigation panel” and make sure that box is ticked.
A sidebar should open to the left of the screen.
Select “Pages” to view all the pages in your current Word document.
Select the blank page you want to remove.
Press the Delete key on your keyboard.
The blank page will then be erased.
How to remove an extra blank page at the end of a Word document.
We’ve all encountered the issue where there’s a random blank page at the end of our Word document, but no matter how times we hit the backspace button, it doesn’t want to budge.
Most of the time, this is because the final paragraph of text is taking up the last space on the page – so Word pushes the final line break to a new page. Luckily, there is a fix for this.
To delete that extra blank page at the end of your Word document, you’ll need to make sure the end paragraph fits completely on the preceding page – line break and all. You can usually do this by shortening one or two sentences.
Alternatively, you’ll need to focus on the empty paragraph on the blank page and look at ways to move this on to the final page. To do this, you can try one of three things:
1. Change the font size of the empty paragraph.
First things first, you can try reducing the font size that’s assigned to this empty paragraph. This in turn should move the line to the preceding page, which will delete the blank page from your Word document. To do this: Press Control+Shift+8 if you’re using a Windows computer or Command+8 on a Mac. This will highlight all the paragraph marks on your Word document.
Use your mouse to select the relevant paragraph mark.
Select 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.
2. Resize the bottom margin.
If the paragraph still doesn’t quite fit on the preceding page, you can try resizing the bottom margin to make it smaller:
Click the “Layout” tab in the top menu.
Select “Margins”, then “Custom Margins”.
Set the bottom one to something small, like 0.7cm.
3. Remove any page breaks.
If the paragraph mark has a bullet next to it, you may need to turn off the “Page Break Before” option. To do this:
Right-click on the empty paragraph.
Go to the “Home” tab in the top menu
Select “Paragraph Settings” and go to the “Lines and Page Breaks” tab.
Uncheck the “Page Break Before” button.
Close the dialogue box and check it’s remove the blank page.
How to remove a blank page in Word with an online PDF editor.
Looking to save some time and reduce the number of steps involved in the process? Instead of removing the blank page in Word, you could use a PDF editor like Adobe Acrobat to extract the blank pages from your document. Here’s how:
Save your Word document as a PDF – that includes the blank page.
Now that you’ve learned how to delete a blank page from your Word documents, why not explore some of the other ways you can use Adobe to edit and update your Microsoft documents? You could:
