Let's see how to delete a page in Word, the popular word processor Microsoft included in the office tools of office. And if you want to learn the basic tricks of the popular text program, this guide will be of great help to you so you don't have to delete an entire paragraph word by word. So much so, that Word It does not offer an option as such to delete a page, although in our guide you will discover a method to obtain the same result in the way more direct and comfortable as possible. Therefore, below we will teach you how to delete all text from a page, in addition to how to delete a blank page either how to delete a blank page at the end of a table.
How to delete a page from Microsoft Word
Index of contents
- How to delete a Word page
- How to delete blank pages from Microsoft Word
- How to remove a blank page at the end of a table
How to delete a Word page
Despite there is not one native tool in Word to delete certain pages, we can perform different actions to achieve the same in other ways. Follow the following steps to delete a page from word:
- The first step is to select the page you want to delete through, for example, the page indicator located in the left corner of the screen, in order to open a column with the pages of the document and you can select the page you want to delete.
- You also have in the same column the option Gonna in which to write the page you want to delete and view it directly on the screen.
- Now you just have to select the text you want to delete of said page; You have several ways: the first is to do click in front of the first word and then, holding down the key SHIFT/SHIFT (Shift) do click on the end of the last word of the paragraph to select all the words in the middle. The second is directly select the text to delete with the mouse doing click in front of the first word for later, holding the click select all the text to delete.
- With the text selected press the key DELETE/DELETE to delete it.
- All selected content on the page will be deleted; Yeah you select all the text on the same page, the page will also be deleted.
How to delete blank pages from Microsoft Word
Another option is remove blank pages that have remained in the text document; and so that you don't have to navigate through the different pages, we show you how to delete blank pages directly and in the most direct and comfortable way; follow the next steps:
- The first step is to click on the page indicator in which you find yourself.
- In the page indicator do click on the blank page that you want to delete.
- Now press the key combination CTRL (CONTROL)+SHIFT (SHIFT)+8; in macOS the key combination is Command+8.
- The paragraph markers created on the page, the result of clicking ENTER to space it paragraph by paragraph.
- Now select all paragraph markers with one of the methods from the previous point.
- With the paragraph markers selected, press the key DELETE/DELETE to delete them.
By deleting such paragraph markers, the blank page will be deleted completely.
How to remove a blank page at the end of a table
- Access the word document whose blank page you want to delete.
- Blank pages that cannot be deleted may end with tables; It is not possible to delete that paragraph, but it is possible reduce paragraph to delete the blank page.
- Go to the tab Table tools; If it doesn't appear at the top of the screen, click somewhere in the text just above the blank page to make it appear.
- Now click Design in the tab Table tools to display the table settings that will appear in the top bar.
- Select the option View grid lines to display the visible lines surrounding the text just before the blank page.
- Activate paragraph marks so that their symbols appear on the page by pressing the keys Ctrl+Shift+8 on Windows and Cmd+8 on Mac.
- Select the symbol that it is just below the table; If more than one symbol appears, select them all with the mouse.
- Click on the tab Start with the paragraph marker selected to change the font size.
- Now click inside the font size box and press the key 1 and Enter to reduce its size to a minimum; This will reduce the size of the hidden paragraph so that it does not take up the entire blank page and thus disappears completely.
- Finally, disable paragraph marks via the key combination Ctrl+Shift+8 on Windows or Cmd+8 on Mac.
