How to Delete an Unwanted Blank Page in Word 2013 or 2016

hey everyone welcome back to 365 ninja today I'm going to go through some strategies on deleting unwanted blank pages in Word 2013 so you can see that I have a document here and if I scroll down I have actually two blank pages and then my fourth page has text on it so the most basic solution is to go to your unwanted blank page let me zoom out a little bit so here's my last blank page I'm going to click as close to the bottom right as I can wherever my cursor lands is the very end of my unwanted blank page and I will simply press my backspace button until I get rid of the pages you can see that worked so if that simple solution does it for you awesome now it's definitely possible that that didn't work so another solution is to go to your view tab select navigation pane and you can see the pages that you have that are blank in my case it's two and three so I can select the page and press my delete key delete press delete again until my blank pages go away all right if you've still got a blank page another possibility is to go to your page layout tab click margins and then select custom margins click the layout tab and in the drop- down menu next to section start select new page and click okay now as you can see that didn't do anything to my blank pages so one really important tool for figuring out why your pages are blank is selecting this show hide paragraph marks because that will show you exactly what's on your pages that may not actually be blank so what that does for me here is show me that I have a page break let me close out of my navigation I have a page break after my text here and on my first supposedly blank page I have another page break and on my last supposedly blank page I have some spaces and a page break so what I can do when I have my paragraph symbols showing is Select everything click delete select my page break click delete and I can even select my page break here at the end of my text click delete and now I don't have any blank pages as you can see I just have one page now I wasn't able to see those page breaks when I didn't have my paragraph symbols showing all right now let's say that those options didn't actually help with my deleting a blank page because I have a table at the end of my document or at the end of the section before the blank page there's a function in word to automatically insert a paragraph after a table and that can result in a blank page so you can't actually delete the inserted paragraph but you can make it extra extra small so it doesn't cause a new page to be displayed what you'll do is with the paragraph marks turned on like I have here select that last paragraph and just go change the font size to size one click enter and now your paragraph is teeny tiny so hopefully it deletes that blank page if that didn't work you can change the spacing around the paragraph select the paragraph symbol pop out your paragraph dialogue box here on the indents and spacing tab change this spacing before and after to zero change your line spacing to single and click okay and if those two options for hiding the paragraph after the table didn't work you can actually hide the paragraph with the symbol selected you'll launch the font dialogue box pop it out here and from this font tab select hidden and click okay and that last resort should hopefully work for you so we went through a bunch of troubleshooting steps that you can go through if you have a blank page and here's two more harmonious Word documents in the future for more tips and tricks like this one please check back with 365 ninja.com

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Length: 4min 30sec (270 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 24 2015