By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
Microsoft Word appears blank or empty page inexplicably at times. Unluckily, set of blank or empty pages couldn't be removed at all. Under this situation, we will tell you four ways on how to delete blank or empty page in Word.
If you see the empty page on the last page, it is easy to solve.
Step 1: Set the cursor on the blank page.
Step 2: Press Spacebar or Delete key to delete an empty page in Word.
Insert a page break may take up a blank or empty page at times under Print Layout mode. In this case, you have to view the line of page break before deleting blank page in Word.
Step 1: Launch Microsoft Word, click on View tab then locate to Document View group and click on Draft. Or you can also click on the thumbnail in the status bar at screen bottom as the image shown below.
Step 2: Select the page break line and delete.
Sadly, multiple blank page breaks may exit when you have a long document. Do the following to delete an empty page in Word.
Step 1: In Word 2007/2013, click on Editing under Home tab then select Replace from the drop-down list. In Word 2010, click on Replace in the Editing group under Home tab.
Tips: Press Ctrl + F can also open Find and Replace window directly.
Step 2: In Find and Replace window, click on Replace tab then tap on More to expand hide functions.
Step 3: At the bottom window, click on Special and choose Manual Page Break from the list.
Step 4: Type nothing in the box next to "Replace with" then tap Replace All to remove multiple page breaks.
Tips: How to show page break in Word while it hides in Draft mode? In Word 2010/2013/2016, navigate to FileOptions > Display. Choose the Show all formatting marks check box under the Always show these formatting marks on the screen section. Alternatively, hit Ctrl + Shift + 8 combination keys to show or hide those marks.
Sometimes you insert a table which takes up the whole page, the Enter key has to stay on next page and couldn't delete at all. Worry not, walk through the steps in the following that deleting empty pages in Word.
Step 1: Click on Page Layout tab then tap on Margins in the Page Setup group. Choose Custom Margins at the end of the drop-down list.
Step 2: In the Page Setup window, reduce your margins to delete blank page in Word.
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