I have a blank page in my word processing document. All of my content seems to fit on the previous page. How do I get rid of this extra page?
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I have a blank page in my word processing document. All of my content seems to fit on the previous page. How do I get rid of this extra page?
- First make sure that there's really not any extra content. Type <CTRL><END> then press <BACKSPACE> until you get back to your content. If you still have problems, continue below.
- Select View -> Nonprinting Characters from the pull down menus (so that the choice is checked). This will allow you to see if there is a special control character (a page break character), that is pushing the page over to another sheet. (Although the first tip would have deleted it already.) Locate that character and delete it (after making a backup of your file).Afterward, you probably want to go back into the View menu and turn off viewing non-printing characters. If you leave them on, when you print you will be prompted for whether you want to print the control characters or not.
- In rare cases, playing around with the Insert -> Manual Break feature using a change of page style can cause 'ghost' pages. These are pages that have no apparent content, no hidden characters, and cannot hold a text cursor. In the case tested, these 'ghost' pages were removed by the following procedure:
- From the pulldown menus, select View -> Online Layout (on some versions this is View -> Web Layout)
- Scroll through your document. The 'ghost' pages should not appear.
- Select View -> Online Layout again (this deselects the choice). The 'ghost' pages should not return.
- Another possible cause of a blank page at the end of a document can occur if the content goes right to the bottom of the last non-blank page. It's possible that the last paragraph mark in the document has too large a font size to fit at the bottom of the page. Put your cursor at the top of the blank page (click with your mouse, or type <CTRL><END>, and look at the font size in the formatting toolbar. If you see a large number (a large font size), change it to a small number, for example if it's set to 22 points try 10 points, or 8 points. oowriter saves enough room for a character of the specified font size on the empty line even if you have no content on the line.
