How to Remove Blank Pages That Can’t Deleted in Word

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One of the problems that are often encountered when creating documents in Microsoft word applications is a blank page that cannot be deleted,

so this blank page is difficult to delete even if you already use the Delete (del) or Backspace keys.

This problem is not only for Microsoft Word 2007 users alone,

for the latest version, the words 2010, 2013, and 2016 also experienced the same thing.

Why can’t a blank word page be deleted?

The cause of a blank page that is difficult to delete is the author’s negligence who is accidentally inserting symbols or hidden characters such as page breaks, section breaks, or empty paragraphs.

How to Delete a Blank Page in Microsoft Word

  1. Activate the show/hide symbol feature by going to the Home tab and then clicking the show/hide icon.
  2. Notice all the previously blank pages, now there are many symbol symbols of paragraphs, page breaks, etc., depending on the content of each document.
  3. Then delete the unnecessary symbols on an empty page by pressing the delete key, or it could be Backspace <-

If there is a symbol that cannot be removed, you can use the following methods:

  1. Activate the show/hide symbol first by entering the home category and then clicking the show/hide icon as shown above.
  2. Then right-click on the symbol on the blank page, and select paragraph…
  3. In the spacing section at the bottom, set the before to 0 after to 0 then the Line spacing becomes single, and the at is just emptied.
  4. Finally, change the font to 1.

If there is a symbol that cannot be removed, you can use the following methods:

  1. Activate the show/hide symbol first by entering the home category and then clicking the show/hide icon as shown above.
  2. Then right-click on the symbol on the blank page, and select paragraph…
  3. In the spacing section at the bottom, set the before to 0 after to 0, then the Line spacing becomes single, and the at is just emptied.
  4. Finally, change the font to 1.

Still can’t it?

It is likely because it is not finished when writing the table, if there is a table and below it, there is a blank page, here’s how:

  1. Enable show/hide the symbol.
  2. Block symbols under the tablet.
  3. Then look at the top, on the Home menu, look at the font section, and in the bottom right corner, there is a small icon box with a down arrow, click on the icon.
  4. Later a font page will appear, at the bottom, check hidden.

That’s how to delete a blank page that cannot be deleted in word, all the methods above can be done if listened to carefully, this blank page is sometimes annoying when you want to print.

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