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MS Office Forum / Word / Tables / March 2004cannot delete page following pages w/tables
Word gurus, I hope someone knows how to do this VERY simple task. I have a document that consists of 13 pages of tables (only tables), two columns and one row per page. The 14th page is blank and I want to delete it ... cannot find a way to delete the last page. I've tried everything ... because the previous page is a table, I cannot get "outside" the table to hit delete. O for WordPerfect where I could just go into Reveal Codes and fix this problem in two seconds. If each table takes up the entire page, then that's the problem. Word insists on having a paragraph mark (whether the paragraph is empty or contains text) at the end of the document. This paragraph mark holds the document/section-level formatting for the entire document or final section. It cannot be deleted, and if it won't fit on the previous page, it will cause an extra "blank" page. You have two choices: 1. You can format it as very small (1 pt font and 1 pt paragraph spacing). Often this suffices to pull it back to the previous page. 2. If even that doesn't work, you will have to format it as Hidden text. In order to accomplish either of these, it will be helpful to display nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click the Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar). Select the paragraph mark and format it using the Font and/or Paragraph dialogs. If you have formatted it as Hidden, you will then have to hide nonprinting characters before the last page will disappear, but even if displayed, it will not print. For more on nonprinting characters, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm For more on Word's equivalents of Reveal Codes, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Word gurus, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > O for WordPerfect where I could just go into Reveal Codes > and fix this problem in two seconds. Suzanne, That is exactly the problem -- my tables on the first 13 pages take up the entire page. >-----Original Message----- >If each table takes up the entire page, then that's the problem. Word >insists on having a paragraph mark (whether the paragraph is empty or >contains text) at the end of the document. This paragraph mark holds the document/ section-level formatting for the entire document or final section. >It cannot be deleted, and if it won't fit on the previous page, it will >cause an extra "blank" page. You have two choices: >1. You can format it as very small (1 pt font and 1 pt paragraph spacing). >Often this suffices to pull it back to the previous page. >2. If even that doesn't work, you will have to format it as Hidden text. > >In order to accomplish either of these, it will be helpful to display >nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click the Show/Hide ¶ button on the >Standard toolbar). Select the paragraph mark and format it using the Font >and/or Paragraph dialogs. If you have formatted it as Hidden, you will then >have to hide nonprinting characters before the last page will disappear, but >even if displayed, it will not print. >For more on nonprinting characters, see >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >. Then use the suggested solutions! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Suzanne, That is exactly the problem -- my tables on the first 13 pages take up the entire page. >-----Original Message----- >If each table takes up the entire page, then that's the problem. Word >insists on having a paragraph mark (whether the paragraph is empty or >contains text) at the end of the document. This paragraph mark holds the document/ section-level formatting for the entire document or final section. >It cannot be deleted, and if it won't fit on the previous page, it will >cause an extra "blank" page. You have two choices: >1. You can format it as very small (1 pt font and 1 pt paragraph spacing). >Often this suffices to pull it back to the previous page. >2. If even that doesn't work, you will have to format it as Hidden text. >In order to accomplish either of these, it will be helpful to display >nonprinting characters (Ctrl+* or click the Show/Hide ¶ button on the >Standard toolbar). Select the paragraph mark and format it using the Font >and/or Paragraph dialogs. If you have formatted it as Hidden, you will then >have to hide nonprinting characters before the last page will disappear, but >even if displayed, it will not print. >For more on nonprinting characters, see >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org >Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so >all may benefit. > >"Susie J." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >news:13d9201c41339$c29477b0$a301280a@phx.gbl... >> Word gurus, >> >> I hope someone knows how to do this VERY simple task. I >> have a document that consists of 13 pages of tables (only >> tables), two columns and one row per page. The 14th page >> is blank and I want to delete it ... cannot find a way to >> delete the last page. >> >> I've tried everything ... because the previous page is a >> table, I cannot get "outside" the table to hit delete. >> >> O for WordPerfect where I could just go into Reveal Codes >> and fix this problem in two seconds. > >. |
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