I have a document that has a blank 2nd page that I cannot delete. There
is a table at the bottom of page one but it does not spill over to the
next page. I thought I would live with it by copying page 1 to page 2
but that gave me a blank 3rd page.

Ideas?

Thanks,

j hite

Press Ctrl+* to display nonprinting characters and you'll probably see one
paragraph mark (empty paragraph) on page 2. Word insists on having one text
paragraph (even if it's empty) after a table at the end of a document. This
paragraph mark holds the document-level formatting, which cannot be held by
the end-of-table marker. You can't delete the paragraph, but you can make it
very small (1 pt) or even Hidden. If you choose the latter, you'll have to
press Ctrl+* again to hide nonprinting characters before you'll see page 2
disappear.

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"john hite" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a document that has a blank 2nd page that I cannot delete. There
> is a table at the bottom of page one but it does not spill over to the
> next page. I thought I would live with it by copying page 1 to page 2
> but that gave me a blank 3rd page.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> j hite
>

Click on ¶ in the standard toolbar to show nonprinting characters. Each ¶
means you have an extra blank line. It will not let you delete the last
one, which stores crucial info, but delete the rest of them. If problem
persists, try adjusting margins.

DM

On 8/8/03 12:02 AM, in article (E-Mail Removed), "john hite"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a document that has a blank 2nd page that I cannot delete. There
> is a table at the bottom of page one but it does not spill over to the
> next page. I thought I would live with it by copying page 1 to page 2
> but that gave me a blank 3rd page.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> j hite
>

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a document that has a blank 2nd page that I
cannot delete. There
>is a table at the bottom of page one but it does not
spill over to the
>next page. I thought I would live with it by copying
page 1 to page 2
>but that gave me a blank 3rd page.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>j hite
>
>.
>Try going to page preview and click on shrink to fit.
If that doesn't work, go to the very last charactor that
you typed and press the delete key several times.

Thanks all for responding. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. XP keeps
crashing, had to reload AGAIN.

jh

john hite wrote:

> I have a document that has a blank 2nd page that I cannot delete.
> There is a table at the bottom of page one but it does not spill over
> to the next page. I thought I would live with it by copying page 1 to
> page 2 but that gave me a blank 3rd page.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> j hite
>