Cannot Delete Page

[domtrump]

Word 2007 has created a third page to my document that I simply cannot get
rid of. The page is blank except for the header. Using "reveal codes" (or
whatever it is called in Word), I can see that the only thing on the page is
a ¶ symbol (paragraph symbol?). I tried to delete it, but when I select it
and hit delete, it will not go away. I have tried the three different
solutions for "Delete Page" in the Word 2007 help, but none of them work. How
do I get rid of the ¶ symbol and remove this unwanted page? The help says to
highlight and delete the "page break" but I do not see such a symbol. What
does a "page break" symbol look like?

Also, is there a table somewhere of the "hidden" formatting codes used in
Word? I can't figure out what some of those symbols mean (what the heck is
"¤" ?).

Thanks for your help.

 

[PamC]

Word will not let you delete the last paragraph mark in a document. That's
where a lot of the document formatting and other document information
resides.

You can still get rid of your unwanted page though.

1. Shorten the page before,
2. Reduce the size of the paragraph mark to, say, 3 points and change any
space before and after the paragraph mark to zero,
3. Apply the hidden font attribute to the paragraph mark. If you choose
this one, the paragraph mark and page will not appear whenever you are NOT
showing formatting marks.

And speaking of formatting marks, the smaller "¤" within a table cell is an
end of cell marker. The one on the right and outside the table is an end of
row marker.

Hope this helps,
Pam C

 

[grammatim]

Or you could delete the paragraph mark at the end of the paragraph
_preceding_ the "empty" paragraph mark.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm