Microsoft Word 2010–Deleting Pages

You can delete a blank page in a Word document, including a blank page that occurs at the end of the document, by deleting page breaks. You can also combine two pages by deleting the page break between them.

Delete a blank page

Make sure that you're in Draft view (on the View menu in the status bar, click Draft). If nonprinting characters, such as paragraph markers (¶), are not visible, on Home, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide .

• To delete a blank page, select the page break at the end of the page, and then press DELETE.

 

Delete a single page of content

You can select and delete a single page of content anywhere in your document.

1. Place your cursor anywhere in the page of content that you want to delete.
2. On the Home tab, in the Find group, click the arrow next to Find, and then click Go To.

3. Type \page and then click Go To.

The content of the page is selected.

4. Click Close, and then press DELETE.

Delete a blank page at the end of a document

Make sure that you're in Draft view (on the View menu in the status bar, click Draft). If nonprinting characters, such as paragraph markers (¶), are not visible, on Home, in the Paragraph group, click Show/Hide .

• To delete a blank page at the end of the document, select the page break or any paragraph markers (¶) at the end of the document, and then press DELETE.