Deleting page breaks in Word

[John]

Hi. I kept some notes and some other text below the essay I was working on.
This caused there to be pages added to my document. Now that I am done with
the essays and have deleted the ancillary text, i would like to delete the
two extra blank pages that are appear after my essay (My essay takes up two
full pages and yet I have a four-page document). Do you know how I could fix
this problem? I am aware of a workaround; however, I would like to be able
to go in there and just cop those excess pages right off. Thanks for your
help.

John

 

[KePaHa]

Switch to Normal View, turn on Paragraph marks (you can press Ctrl+Shift+8).
Then click to the left of the Page Breaks that appear and press [Del] on the
keyboard.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[John]

Suzanne,

It was as simple as deleting all those little formatting marks. Thank you so
much!

John

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is one reason I and many other Word users find it helpful (even
necessary) to display nonprinting characters almost all the time. For tips
on interpreting them, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

 

[grammatim]

Maybe people don't realize it isn't an all-or-nothing feature. You can
have them all (including the interword space dots that so many find so
annoying) with the Show Non-Printing Characters command, but in the
Tools > Options > View menu, you can turn on each individual set.

I always have Paragraph Marks and Tabs on. (It's often important to
know whether your paragraph indent is by style or by tab -- and you
shouldn't mix the two methods in a document!) The others rarely need
to be visible.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's definitely a matter of taste and habit. Although I can usually detect
extra spaces between words by eye (especially on printout), I do find it
helpful to have the dots, and I'm used to them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Maybe people don't realize it isn't an all-or-nothing feature. You can
have them all (including the interword space dots that so many find so
annoying) with the Show Non-Printing Characters command, but in the
Tools > Options > View menu, you can turn on each individual set.

I always have Paragraph Marks and Tabs on. (It's often important to
know whether your paragraph indent is by style or by tab -- and you
shouldn't mix the two methods in a document!) The others rarely need
to be visible.

 

[grammatim]

I often have authors who insist on putting two spaces between
sentences, so the first thing I do in setting up, along with
converting all the quotes to curly, is Find/Replace all Space Space
with Space and keep repeating until Word returns "0 Changes." (And
then I do Space ^p to ^p, because I hate wasting a character at the
end of a paragraph!! Unforrunately there doesn't seem to be a way to
get rid of a space at the end of a footnote.)