Delete a page Word 2007

[otuatail]

Hi
I have a word document with 4 pages. Word insists on giving me an extra blank page. When I type and go over onto another page, I still have an extra page. NOW 6 PAGES.



I have looked on line. Tried draft mode highlighted a row and hit delete. Simply hit delete. Word will not get rid if the extra page. This is frustrating and I have to regularly copy content to a new word document.

I have been to a Microsoft site

Delete a single page of content


You can select and delete a single page of content anywhere in your document.

1. Place your cursor anywhere in the page of content that you want to delete.
2. On the Home tab, in the Find group, click the arrow next to Find, and then click Go To.
   
3. Type \page and then click Go To.
   The content of the page is selected.
4. Click Close, and then press DELETE.

Delete a blank page at the end of a document


NO THIS DOES NOT WORK.

[JimP]

Try clicking the ¶ button on the home tab OR CTRL+* (CTRL+SHIFT+8) to display the formatting characters. There you can tell if any page breaks appear that may be causing your problem.

[otuatail]

Been there and got T-shirt

Yes there is a ¶

If I try to delete it, it will not delete. what's the next move?
I do have a header with a title and a version date automatically updated.

[otuatail]

This is strange behaviour. I typed a few letters and deleted the lot. Now the page is gone. Any explanation as to why I had to add text/data first?

[Charles Kenyon]

You cannot delete the last paragraph mark in a document. It actually contains much of the information about the document. It is, at least, a Section mark holding all of the headers/footers, page numbering, margins and orientation for the section.

Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013

[otuatail]

No you are missing the point. I have 4 pages and the last page has an end paragraph marker. scroll down and you find a 5th page with nothing on it but a ¶ for example

<page 4 half of a page>
Yours sincerely XXX¶

<page 5>
¶

<this is a blank page with a solitary ¶>

If I would add to the letter in this case Yours sincerely XXX and it ran into a 5th page I would still have a 6th page with a solitary ¶

Hi-light the ¶ and try to delete and it refuses to delete. Add some text £$$%%^¶

now Hi-light the £$$%%^¶ and hay presto the line is deleted and the extra page is GONE.

This must be a Microsoft BUG in word. Why do I have to type some random text before deleting the line in order to delete the extra page.

[JimP]

Originally Posted by otuatail

This must be a Microsoft BUG in word. Why do I have to type some random text before deleting the line in order to delete the extra page.

This is no bug! However, if you would upload the document...or a portion thereof, someone could tell you more definitively.

[Stefan Blom]

See http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/BlankPage.htm.

As others have suggested, you can also upload an example document, if you want to. In the Reply form, click the Go Advanced button; then you will see an option to attach a file.

[Charles Kenyon]

This is not a bug in Word. It is how it works. The people telling you this do not work for Microsoft. I don't even like Microsoft.

Upload the document.