Next Page, Odd Page, and Even Page section breaks may create a new page in Word. If your empty page occurs at the end of your document and you have a section break there, you can place your cursor directly before the section break and press Delete to delete it. That should remove the blank page.
Hello, I'm having problems with Word tables in Word 2010. After inserting a table one can drag it to the bottom of the sheet (in Print Layout) or to the right margin of the screen (in Web Layout).
When in Print Layout, this dragging and dropping creates a weird empty space at the top of the table — there doesn't seem to be any hidden formatting symbols in it, just empty space. What's worse, it doesn't disappear on selecting the table and copying/pasting it into another Word document: I still have this huge empty space over the table. Is there a way to remove it programmatically or reposition the table to its original place that it occupied before it was moved? I need to export tables to Bitmap images and when users move tables I get a blank image with a table barely visible in its bottom.
Hi, If your blank page occurs in the middle of a document (and is not caused by an Odd/Even Page section break), there is a remote chance that it is caused by a plethora of empty paragraphs, but more often it is the result of a manual page break. This is one reason manual page breaks are discouraged: when formatting changes (either because of editing or because the document is opened on a system using a different printer), the manual page break may immediately follow a natural page break, causing a blank page. Even without displaying nonprinting characters, you should be able to see a manual page break that has been inserted using Ctrl+Enter or Insert Break: Page break (in Word 2010, access the Breaks gallery from the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab on the Ribbon). It will be represented by a dotted line across the page labeled “Page Break.” (In Word 2010, the indicator will extend only part of the way across the page.) You can easily select this and delete it. If you don’t see a manual page break, the likelihood is that the page break is being caused by paragraph formatting. Whenever a page ends short for no apparent reason, examine the paragraph(s) at the top of the following page.
Go to the Line and Page breaks tab of Format Paragraph and see whether “Page break before” or “Keep with next” is checked. Although this type of formatting alone will not result in a blank page, it frequently accounts for a partially empty page and could result in a blank page if the “blank” page contains a single paragraph mark formatted as “Page break before,” followed by another “Page break before” paragraph on the next page. (In Word 2010, access the Paragraph dialog by clicking on the dialog launcher arrow at the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group on the Home tab of the Ribbon.) Jaynet Zhang TechNet Community Support. I had big spaces at the bottom of 2 of 50 page doc. Found NO HELP from on line community. Drove me nuts (trying to publish book). Right click the illustration (which is in the middle of the following page), select 'wrap text' which brings up another menu, select 'move to front.'
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Problem solved (with no thanks to Microsoft on this one). Note that contributors here are volunteers, so you will have to be patient when asking for assistance. Posting in a thread which was started six years earlier is not the best way to attract attention. Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP.