unwanted blank page at end of document

[Craig]

I have a Word 2008 document that ends with a 2-row table. The document seems to have an unwanted line return, and therefore shows on the screen and prints with an unwanted final blank page. When I place the cursor on the top of this blank page, I cannot back space to eliminate the unwanted page.

Suggestions?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

hi Craig,

Hit ¶ on the toolbar to show nonprinting characters. There's probably a
¶ after the table, causing your problem. You can't delete it, because
Word stores a lot of information in the final paragraph mark in a doc,
but you can format it at 1pt (or set it to Hidden, I think). One or both
of those might be enough to get rid of the final page.

 

[Craig]

Thanks very much, Dalya. The hidden par. symbol was indeed there, and could not be deleted. However, when I set its size at 1 point, as you suggested, that was a short enough line to print at the end of the previous page, instead of running onto the next blank page. So it did resolve the problem.