
The VBA code of removing all column breaks: Click Module on the Insert tab, copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window Press “ Alt-F11” to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window Ģ. There will be a “ ^n” character in the Find What field, and click Replace All.Īlternatively you can use a macro to remove all empty lines if you are good at VBA code, and you may follow the below instructions like this:ġ. Place the cursor in the Find What field, and select the Column Break from the Special pull-down menu.Ĥ. Click Home > Replace to enable this utility.Ģ. Remove all column breaks with the Find and Replaceġ. But selecting column breaks one by one is arduous and painful if the document covers more than 200 pages. Hold “ Ctrl” key to select all column breaks one by one, and press Delete key.

Select the column break that you want to remove ģ. To show column break marks in the document, please click Home > Show/Hide Editing Marks as shown in the below screenshot.Ģ. Type \page into the ‘Enter page number’ box and press Enter to highlight all the content on that page, including text, graphics and tables.1. Click anywhere on the unwanted page and press Ctrl+G (Command+G on a Mac) to open the Find and Replace box.Ģ. This method is pretty tedious, though, and you risk deleting text from the previous page if you don’t release the key in time.Ī much quicker option is to delete the whole page in one go using Word’s Find and Replace tool. The easiest way to remove an unwanted page from a Word document is to click the end of the page and hold down the Backspace key until all of its content is gone. How to delete a page in Microsoft Word: Deleting an unwanted page Press Backspace again if it doesn’t disappear automatically. Press Enter and the hidden paragraph will move to the previous page of the document, and the blank page will be removed. Select inside the Font Size box and type 01, to make the hidden paragraph as small as possible (1-point).ĥ.

Double-click this to open Word’s Formatting window.Ĥ. Press Backspace to delete all the paragraph marks from the blank page, and you’ll just be left with the undeletable one.
