Last Page (blank) won't delete

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Hi! I inserted a table that lasted exactly two pages. However, at the end of the document (now on page 3), I cannot get the cursor to move back when I hit backspace. The cursor is outside of the table at this point. So I have a new page (page 3) that is blank, which I am trying to make go away.

I hope this does not sound confusing!

Thanks in advanced for any assistance.

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Anonymous

Hi JC555,

You cannot delete the final paragraph marker after a table. If it just so happens that the paragraph marker slips on to the next page, then there is a little trick that I learned eons ago.

You'll need the Show/Hide characters switched on to do this:

If you don't have them switched on already, click the Show/Hide button in the toolbar on the Home tab (it's the one with the ¶ symbol in it) to display your document formatting, then:.

Select the final paragraph marker
Right click on it and choose Paragraph... from the pop-up menu
Under the Spacing category, make sure you have 0 in Before: and After:
Click OK if you made any changes to the Spacing
With the paragraph marker still selected: click on the little arrow in the Font Size button in the Font category and type 1 (you won't find it to select in the list)

>>> This will ensure that the font is the smallest size possible. With a bit of luck it will make the rogue paragraph marker jump on to the preceding page.

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All the best,

Sharon

Sharon Roffey

Queensland, Australia

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Anonymous

Hi Mike,

It *is* a proper fix or, better put, there is no fix ... the last paragraph marker simply cannot be deleted. Not ever. It contains all the formatting information on the preceding text.

In fact, it would be chaos if you could delete it! I guess it's just bad luck when it falls all on its lonesome on to the next page after a table.

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Anonymous

2012-08-17T15:32:37+00:00

Just what I need.Thanks a lot.
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Anonymous

2012-10-04T19:29:04+00:00

Thank you Sharon, it was very helpful, I did it!!!! God Bless!
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Anonymous

2012-10-23T16:57:50+00:00

As far as I hate Microsoft more than any other company in this world, it is definitely not my intention to help them make money while I still pay big bucks for their new product lines since almost two decades of headaches, and they still do nothing great/worth. They are not even doing a single effort in improving the client support, far from it they seem to stretch even further in the other direction.

But, I have experienced so much craziness with them being so dumb making products so poor while trying to improve their image with some ridiculous ideas like a ribbon, I understand what it is to ask something so basic and logical from a software such as Word, to delete a page after a table and not being able to do it SIMPLY. I have discovered something on my own, though, which is to look at the vertical ruler at left where there is the unwanted space followed by a |P, and there you should be able to move some kind of middle margin separator that you may bring under the last table, though preventing a loner |P to go somewhere you haven't even asked for. Voilà.
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