Microsoft Word is the most popular word processor on the planet. Almost everyone has worked, written a letter, created invitations or made a resume with this software, so most of the users know how to delete the content of a page: with the backspace key or the function of? Delete. ? of the program - as in many other similar programs. However, sometimes our intention is to remove the page itself. For this, Word also offers a solution..
Often, to erase what we have written in a document, just press the backspace key. In this way, letters, words, or even entire paragraphs can be removed. However, sometimes we want to remove an entire page from Word, either because its content is no longer needed or because it is an unnecessary blank page. This page can be anywhere, both at the end and in the middle of the document.
Unwanted blank pages usually appear due to the presence of a page break that we insert manually and that we no longer have located. In the default view, Word hides the control characters, so it is very difficult to find the elements that prevent the page from being deleted. To make things easier for yourself, you can enable the "Show all" feature, which shows the formatting symbols in the text. All you have to do is click on the ¶ icon in the "Home" tab. In this way, all hidden jumps are shown..
You can also use the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl] + [Shift] + 8 to display the control characters.
With this function, you can view all the elements that you have to delete. Paragraph marks and page breaks are clearly shown in the image . To remove them, place the cursor in front of the corresponding character and press the backspace key. When there are no characters left to delete on the page, and you've also deleted the page break, Word will automatically delete the page in question..
If it is not a blank page, but rather contains content, you must first remove the text, images, and tables. The easiest way to do this is to select the elements you want to delete with the mouse and then delete them . Then erase any remaining paragraph marks. This way, you will have removed the entire page.
To navigate pages faster in large documents, you can use the "Go to" function. Using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl] + [I], this window is opened directly. Enter the actual number of the page, or + or - and the number of items, to move forward or backward based on your current position in the document.
