Extra page

[ray mc]

My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

 

[ray mc]

i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

 

[ray mc]

Sorry, i forgot to say that i need to fix this so i can send out my resume,
am out of work any help is greatly appreciated

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part of
my article that addresses that issue.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[ray mc]

Thank you suzanne, I highlited the paragraph mark and changed the font to 1
and the page disappeared - thanks for your patience Ray

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you got it sorted.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org