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Delete a blank page at the end of a Word 2007 Document

I spent about 30 minutes trying to delete a blank page at the end of a legal document.  I tried backspacing, deleting page breaks, ranting at the computer … but no matter what I did, I couldn’t find the issue that was causing this extra blank page to exist.

Finally, I clicked the Show/Hide ¶ button (Located on the Home tab of the ribbon)

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This magic button revealed formatting marks.  When I deleted the paragraph mark: ¶ the blank page went away. (The paragraph mark ¶ indicates an empty paragraph)

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This entry was written by Sandi Mays and posted on July 16, 2009 at 12:31 am and filed under Word. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment(Latest is displayed first) or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Thanks a ton! I’ve wasted 30 minutes try different things to delete that last ‘blank’ and this worked!!!

    1. Tom on June 30th, 2010 at 3:32 pm

  2. Okay, but what do we do when the paragraph mark refuses to be deleted?
    If a page break is at the end of the last page of a document, it is almost impossible to delete the paragraph mark which deletes that last page. Many times I have been forced to open a blank doc and then copy/paste everything but that last page break and paragraph mark; of course this also requires me to do a lot of reformatting.

    2. Venus on November 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am

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