There are several ways to delete blank pages in Microsoft Word, and here are four common ways:
Backspace or Delete key: If a blank page is the last page, you can directly hover the mouse over the beginning of the last page and press the Backspace or Delete key to delete it.
Resize: If the blank page is due to the size of the previous page, you can resize it appropriately to fit the page.
Adjust paragraph spacing: If the blank page is caused by excessive paragraph spacing, select the paragraph, then right-click, select "Paragraph", and set the spacing before and after the paragraph to 0 in the pop-up window.
Remove page breaks: If there are manually inserted page breaks in your Word document, and these page breaks cause the appearance of blank pages, you can show the hidden marks such as page breaks by the Show Hide Edit Marks feature under Start Menu, and then delete them.
The above four methods basically cover the common operations of deleting blank pages in Word. Next, these four methods will be explained and introduced in detail.
1. Use the backspace or delete key to delete.
This is the simplest and most straightforward way to do this, and is useful if the blank page is at the end of the document. The steps are as follows:
Open a Word document with blank pages.
Place the mouse cursor at the beginning of a blank page.
Press the Backspace key or the Delete key on your keyboard.
In this way, the blank page is deleted and the document content is automatically filled to the previous page.
2. Adjust the size.
Sometimes, a blank page appears because the ** at the end of the previous page is too large and out of the page. In this case, you can delete the blank page by resizing **. The specific steps are as follows:
Click and drag to select **.
Place the mouse in the lower-right corner of ** until a double-headed arrow appears.
Hold down the left mouse button and drag to resize ** to fit the page.
Release the left mouse button to complete the size adjustment.
Once you're done resizing, the blank page should disappear.
3. Adjust paragraph spacing.
Excessive paragraph spacing can also lead to blank pages. To fix this, you can follow these steps:
Select paragraphs that contain too much spacing. You can select the entire paragraph by dragging the cursor, or by placing the cursor anywhere in the paragraph and clicking the left mouse button three times in a row.
Right-click and select "Paragraph" from the pop-up menu.
In the Paragraph window that pops up, find the Spacing section.
Set the spacing between "before" and "after" to 0 or another small number.
Click the "OK" button to apply the settings.
Once you've adjusted the paragraph spacing, the blank page should disappear.
4. Delete page breaks.
In a Word document, page breaks are used to force content to be moved from one page to the next. Sometimes, these manually inserted page breaks can cause unnecessary blank pages to appear. To remove these page breaks, you can follow these steps:
Open a Word document with blank pages.
Click "Start" in the menu bar.
Find the Show Hidden Edit Markers feature (usually an icon that shows paragraph markers) in the Start menu and click it to show all hidden markers in the document, including page breaks.
Browse through the document and find the page break (usually a dotted line) that causes the blank page to appear.
Place the cursor in front of the page break and press the delete key to delete it;Or place the cursor after the page break and press the backspace key to delete it.
Repeat the above steps to remove any unnecessary page breaks from the document.
Click the "Show Hide Edit Markers" function again to hide all markers.
Save the document. Once you have done this, the blank pages caused by page breaks should be deleted. Note that you should be careful when removing page breaks to ensure that important content is not deleted by mistake. If you're not sure whether a page break can be deleted, back up the document before you do it.