Software Stupid MS Word Question: How to Delete a Blank Page?

[Joe]

I OCRed some text from a printed page into a Word .DOC document. The original was one page long. I had to "doctor" the OCRed document quite a lot but eventually got it down to one page, like the original. But the resulting .DOC was two pages--one of text and a blank page tacked on for no apparent reason.

I tried copying and pasting the text into a new document. But that did not work. The original had some prefatory material, then four numbered paragraphs. The new document had the prefatory material and paragraph 1 on page 1 and paragraphs 2 through 4 on page 2. Word seemed to be insisting that it needed two pages to contain one page of text.

If it matters I am using Word 2000 (= version 9, I think) on a computer running WinXP and/or a laptop running Windows 7.

Needless to say, the "Help" in MS Word was of no help.

Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?

 

[AeryFairy]

When this happens to me I usually just make the bottom margin smaller, if possible.

 

[Mischief]

Go to the end of your text (immediately after the last period) and press "delete" until the blank page disappears. It's usually an invisible formatting code that's causing the blank page.

 

[KLS52]

All of the above or sometimes I click on the what would be the first line of the blank page and hit backspace until it takes me to the end of the first page.

 

[Calliegirl]

That's usually due to extra spaces or page breaks. You can make the extra characters/formatting visible by clicking on the button circled in the picture so they are easier to delete. You can turn it off again by clicking the same button.

I found this picture on the internet, so I don't know why they have the other stuff on there.