Delete Blank Pages at the End of Word 97/2000 Documents

Note  Works with all versions of Microsoft Word.

If a blank page prints at the end of a Word document, you can easily delete the page by deleting extra paragraph mark symbols (¶) at the end of the document.

To see what's contained on a blank page, click the Show/Hide command on the Standard toolbar to display paragraph mark symbols that are normally hidden from view. You may see just one extra paragraph mark at the end of the document, or you may see a series of extra paragraph marks:





Word creates extra paragraph mark symbols when you press ENTER one or more times after the last line of text. You can delete a blank line or a blank page by deleting paragraph mark symbols that stand alone without other text such as the ones above.

To delete blank pages at the end of a document

  1. Press CTRL+END to go to the end of the document.
  2. Click Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar to see extra paragraph mark symbols at the end of the document.
  3. Press BACKSPACE to delete additional paragraph marks.

After you're through, you can click Show/Hide again to hide paragraph marks and other types of formatting marks that appear throughout Word documents.


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