Deleting page breaks in Word

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Hi. I kept some notes and some other text below the essay I was working on.
This caused there to be pages added to my document. Now that I am done with
the essays and have deleted the ancillary text, i would like to delete the
two extra blank pages that are appear after my essay (My essay takes up two
full pages and yet I have a four-page document). Do you know how I could fix
this problem? I am aware of a workaround; however, I would like to be able
to go in there and just cop those excess pages right off. Thanks for your
help.

John
 
Switch to Normal View, turn on Paragraph marks (you can press Ctrl+Shift+8).
Then click to the left of the Page Breaks that appear and press [Del] on the
keyboard.
 
Suzanne,

It was as simple as deleting all those little formatting marks. Thank you so
much!

John
 
Maybe people don't realize it isn't an all-or-nothing feature. You can
have them all (including the interword space dots that so many find so
annoying) with the Show Non-Printing Characters command, but in the
Tools > Options > View menu, you can turn on each individual set.

I always have Paragraph Marks and Tabs on. (It's often important to
know whether your paragraph indent is by style or by tab -- and you
shouldn't mix the two methods in a document!) The others rarely need
to be visible.
 
It's definitely a matter of taste and habit. Although I can usually detect
extra spaces between words by eye (especially on printout), I do find it
helpful to have the dots, and I'm used to them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Maybe people don't realize it isn't an all-or-nothing feature. You can
have them all (including the interword space dots that so many find so
annoying) with the Show Non-Printing Characters command, but in the
Tools > Options > View menu, you can turn on each individual set.

I always have Paragraph Marks and Tabs on. (It's often important to
know whether your paragraph indent is by style or by tab -- and you
shouldn't mix the two methods in a document!) The others rarely need
to be visible.
 
I often have authors who insist on putting two spaces between
sentences, so the first thing I do in setting up, along with
converting all the quotes to curly, is Find/Replace all Space Space
with Space and keep repeating until Word returns "0 Changes." (And
then I do Space ^p to ^p, because I hate wasting a character at the
end of a paragraph!! Unforrunately there doesn't seem to be a way to
get rid of a space at the end of a footnote.)
 
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