HOW TO delete extra page in Word document (5 quick fixes)

Hi there needing a hand to remove a blank or extra page in word let me help Hey I'm Sharyn from Excel at Work where we offer straightforward non-technical assistance to help you save time work smarter and improve your skills in office applications If you're new here and you love helpful tips and guidance please click that subscribe button oh and to speed things up I've popped jump links to each of the topics I cover in this video in the description box below. So let's talk about removing a page break If you're watching this you're probably wrestling with a extra page break or a blank page or a lot of space within your document somewhere. I'm going to show you several different fixes starting with the easiest and moving to the more unusual fixes so let's get going and see if i can help you out right let's see if we can fix this extra page that's in your document So fix number one that I want to go through with you you'll need to do this on the Home tab you would need to come over here and click on the Show Hide character now once that's on you're going to see a little symbol on your screen and that represents wherever the Enter key has been hit on the keyboard to start a new paragraph now I'm just going to go over to the View tab and I'm going to use the side to side view so that you can see what i'm doing so this is page one this is page two and you can see a whole heap of little symbols now that means that somebody has just done this they've popped their insertion point at a point on the page and pressed enter a lot of times so if you've got an extra page with all of these symbols in them what i would suggest you do is you highlight over them and press your delete key and you can see that you're now starting to bring your paragraphs together so if you can see them and they're not wanted just delete them out and you will bring your paragraphs back together again so that's fix number one right fix number two when you have your show hide characters turned on you can also see wherever a page break has been inserted into the document so creating a page break is really simple you can place your insertion point wherever you want to start information on a new page or say for example i wanted this paragraph to start on a new page and on the insert tab i can pop a page break in and as you do that you will create a page break symbol so all you need to do is remove the symbol and you will see that you actually bring your text back together again so at any time you can do that you can just take out the page break and there you go you're actually getting rid of those extra pages right fix number three i'm just going to come forward a little bit into the document here we've got a heading but we've got a big gap underneath it and there are no paragraph markers to show that anybody's hit the enter key to actually create this space also you'll notice that there's no page break symbol either underneath here so how come this information is starting on a new page why is there this gap so i want to show you this i'm just going to come over to this paragraph over here and i want to point out i don't know how well you can see this actually but there is a tiny wee little square just to the left of the w there right i'm going over to the home tab i'm going to make my way to paragraph and click on the paragraph dialog box launcher now you can also get there just by doing a right click over the paragraph and left clicking paragraph as well right once you're in here line and page breaks is where i need you to go and i want to show you this i'm just going to come bring this down here this paragraph has a setting on it to say page break before so if you've got this kind of look and you're thinking why on earth have i got such a big gap why have i got a blank page i can't see why it's happening remove this click on ok and look you'll bring them back together again so i'm really hoping that one of those tips has fixed your problem so far but if it hasn't let's talk about this last tip okay we're going to talk about section breaks but before i even get you to remove the section break i want to point this out if i just go back in my document you'll see that this page numbering on a couple of these pages so page 2 page 3 the last page doesn't have it so when we have section breaks in a document it means that there's document formatting that's been changed somewhere in the document if i click up into here and i just want to take you down to where my mouse is you can see it says section one down in the left corner of the page so that's one section of the document that has page numbering on it now if i come over here and click on to this page we're now in section two and it doesn't have page numbering on it so watch what happens when you delete the section breakout you will definitely remove the page break so obviously if you've got blank pages that have been created by section breaks it will actually remove that blank page for you however what it'll also do is it'll take the settings for that section and apply it to the section before so it's taking the formattings or the page formattings from section two and applying them to now section one so see how the page numbering's gone so be very careful when you're deleting section breaks okay and just maybe have a look at all the different things that are going on in the document it could be headers and footers it could be page number it could even be portrait to landscape yes it will obviously help you with removing the blank pages but just keep an eye out for that so if the section break is what's causing the blank page in your document or the gap in your document and you're a little bit concerned about removing headers for those page numbers and things like that in fact what i'll do is i'll just undo this so that we get our page numbers back i'll just show you this if we come through to the appendix page here i'm just going to double click down into the bottom of section 2. now up the very top here i can go link to previous i'm just going to go ahead and do that and it'll just say do you want to delete this header and footer and connect to the previous one if i say yes you can see now it's actually pulled through the page numbering so if i now come out of here and delete that section break you will see that the page numbering stays on so that might be a way that you can delete that page break but still keep the headers and footers from your previous section. And the last thing i want to cover is when you have a rogue last page, that last page you just can't get rid of and if everything I've shown you so far hasn't worked watch this I'm just going to come over here, pop in a page break and we've got this paragraph marker on the last page and of course I've been saying to you just highlight it press delete and nothing happens, it doesn't disappear but can you see on the previous page there is a page break here so all you need to do is go to the previous page and make sure that you highlight the page break press your delete key and there you go that rogue page will be gone So I really hope that one of these tips has sorted your problem and you are now able to get rid of those pesky page breaks in Word if this has been helpful please hit the like button and please let me know in the comments below which one of these fixes actually helped you out and if you'd like to stay connected please make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell because i'm creating and sharing new videos regularly and if you know of anyone that this could help as well please be sure to share this video with them hey thanks for watching and have a fabulous day

Channel: Excel at Work

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Length: 7min 21sec (441 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 28 2020