Cannot Remove Added Page At End of Document!

[moneyaddyct]

Hey guys,
I'm having a problem with Word 2007. I created a resume from a
template that I downloaded from the Word database and it created an
extra page at the end of the document that I absolutely cannot delete.
I've tried going into View --> Draft then Home --> Paragraph --> Show/
Hide, but it won't let me delete the page break. I've also tried
highlighting the page and pressing delete, but I can't seem to
highlight the second page without highlighting the text on the first
page and therefore I cannot delete the second page without deleting
the first. Any ideas? This resume is part of my application to law
school and I need it perfect. I can't have an extra page in the
document with nothing on it. Thanks!

 

[Tony Jollans]

No matter what you do, the effect will be seen on your machine with your
printer driver. If you submit a document to someone else, they will see it
formatted on their machine for their printer and you have no idea how it
will look.

Create a PDF without the extra page. There is a free download available from
Microsoft to enable creation of PDFs from Word 2007 documents, or there are
other free PDF creation tools out there.

 

[Terry Farrell]

To add to Tony's answer, if the resume has been set out in a table in order
to make alignment easy, then the final character will be a paragraph mark
because tables must ALWAYS be followed by a paragraph mark. Turn on the
non-printing characters (Ctrl+Shift+8) and see if there is just that single
paragraph mark on the final blank page? If that is what is happening, you
may be able to get rid of it by selecting it and use Format, Font to make it
just 1 point. Or if you select it and again use Format Font to assign it a
hidden character attribute: when you toggle off the non-printing characters,
the final page should disappear.

 

[moneyaddyct]

To add to Tony's answer, if the resume has been set out in a table in order
to make alignment easy, then the final character will be a paragraph mark
because tables must ALWAYS be followed by a paragraph mark. Turn on the
non-printing characters (Ctrl+Shift+8) and see if there is just that single
paragraph mark on the final blank page? If that is what is happening, you
may be able to get rid of it by selecting it and use Format, Font to make it
just 1 point. Or if you select it and again use Format Font to assign it a
hidden character attribute: when you toggle off the non-printing characters,
the final page should disappear.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I followed your directions and made the
paragraph mark 1pt size and hidden, but after I hit ctrl + shift + 8
again, the page still remained. If I select the 2nd page there's now a
tiny 1pt blinking cursor, but I can't seem to delete the page.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You haven't succeeded in making it Hidden, apparently. I find that
Ctrl+Shift+H doesn't do it. You have to select the paragraph mark every
carefully and go to Format | Font and check the Hidden box.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Actually, the easiest approach is to create a paragraph style that includes
the hidden attribute (and/or the line spacing and font size settings
discussed earlier in this thread), and apply it to the relevant blank
paragraphs.

To avoid possible confusion when pressing Enter in the text, you'd better
make sure to set the "Style for following paragraph" to, say, the Normal
style, though.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

 

[Terry Farrell]

Stefan

That's a good point. Creating a Style called something logical such as
'EndPage' with font set to hidden would make it so easy to apply (I wonder
why I didn't think of this before!)

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I agree this is clever. I have so little need for this that a style hadn't
occurred to me, either.