please help delete my page.

[Alexander Vaux]

I know this is stupid but how do I delete a page in the middle of my
document?

 

[&:-jesse]

There are a few different ways of deleting text on a
page...

Click on hold the left button on your mouse and drag to
last character of text on the page you want to delete,
then press Delete on your keyboard....

or..

Click and release your mouse at the begining of the first
character on the page. Press and hold the Shift key, and
press the down arrow on the keyboard until you get to the
last line on the page. Use the right or left arrows while
holding the Shift key down to get to the last character,
Then, press Delete on your keyboard.

jesse

 

[Alexander Vaux]

Thanks for the reply - I should have elaborated. I need to remove a whole
blank page from the middle of a document that I've spent ages setting up
with labelling on the scroll bar and other tricky stuff! I've now finished
the document but a blank page turned up in the middle. I don't want to just
move the text as it would upset all my labelling/links/contents table etc.
Is there a way to remove a whole page???

Thanks for the quick reply!!

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Alexander,

To know how to remove that particular page, you need to figure out what's
causing Word to create it. Here are some possibilities to look for.

- A hard page break, which will be visible in Normal view as a dotted line
containing the words "Page Break".
- A Next Page, Even Page, or Odd Page Section Break, also visible in Normal
view.
- Lots of empty paragraph marks, visible when you turn on nonprinting
characters by pressing in the ¶ button on the toolbar.
- A paragraph (the first one on the next page) marked with the paragraph
formatting "Page break before", either directly or through a style.
- A large paragraph marked with the paragraph formatting "Keep together".
- One or many paragraphs marked with the paragraph formatting "Keep with
next".
- A text box or drawing shape, possibly empty and with no border or shading,
and with text wrapping turned on.
- (Unlikely) A corrupted document (see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm).