deleting blank pages at end

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This has GOT to be so simple, I'm embarassed, but I
cannot find it in Help. In word 2000, I have fax sheets
that somehow got a 2nd page on them. One just goes to
page 2, while another got a header with either my name or
the date in it (I got it erased), and a footer with page
2 in it. When I accidentally go down a page, i.e., add
another page that I then discover I don't need, how can I
make Word forget about/delete that page, so I don't print
a last blank page every time I print the document?
Thanks for any help.
 
This is one good reason for operating with nonprinting characters displayed
(see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). In most cases
you'll find at least one empty paragraph on that "empty" page. Delete that,
and the page is history. If a table entirely consumes the previous page,
however, you won't be able to delete that one empty paragraph at the end of
the document. Word insists on keeping that because it holds the
document/section-level formatting. So you can't delete it, but you can make
it very small (1 pt) or Hidden.

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Click on the ¶ button on the toolbar to display all of the end of paragraph
markers (¶) and delete all of the empty ones at the end of the document.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
In addition to their suggestions, you may want to create a
macro for printing just the current page, and put that on
your toolbar. Use print current page only when doing fax
covers.
 
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