Microsoft Word appears blank or empty page inexplicably at times. I’ve included a picture to show the draft button at the bottom right of the window.Four Ways on How to Delete Blank or Empty Page in Word Click on the one closest to the slider, when you mouse over it, there should be a label thing saying “Draft”, click on that icon. “At the bottom-right corner of the window next to the size slider, there should be 5 icons. Barnhill’s comment on WugnetĬherryBerry made a great comment below that fixes some of the more persistent next page section breaks: However, if you change the behavior of the current break, its OK.

It appears that Word is insistent on always moving back any Next Page Section breaks if deleted.

But this allows you to change a section break’s behavior. Change the Section Start from “New Page” to “Continuous” using the drop down arrow. Click on the layout tab in the pop-up window. Go to File -> Page Setup … in the menu (in XP – in Later Versions, go to page setup). Solution: Click after the section break (i.e. In fact, every time you delete the Next Page Section Break, text moves to the last page.

Problem: Word has an extra page at the end that you can’t delete, and when you turn on the Show/Hide codes function a “Section Break (Next Page)” appears after your text. UPDATE : See update for a potential better way to fix stubborn next page section breaks that won’t delete. Until all my pages were letter, I could not remove the next page section break. On one copy/paste, I noticed that the copied pages were A4, while my normal pages were letter size. UPDATE : Note that you need to make sure that all of your pages are the same size.

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