There are many different ways to delete blank pages in Word in all current versions of Word. When you download a Word document from the Internet, there may be some blank pages in Word that are redundant, do not contain content and affect the document as well as the layout of Word. Deleting blank pages in Word will ensure the continuity of the document and professionalism. Below are instructions for deleting blank pages in Word.
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Instructions for deleting blank pages in Word 2013, 2016, 2019 and above
Delete blank Word page using Delete and Backspace keys
To delete a blank page at the end in Word using the Delete key, simply place the mouse at the end of the page and press Delete.
If you want to use the Backspace key to delete an interleaved blank page, place the cursor at the first position after the blank page and press Backspace.
Delete blank pages using Navigation Pane
If the document has many pages, this method is also very fast.
Click View on the Ribbon bar and then click Navigation Pane to display on the left side of the interface.

Displayed on the left side of the interface, you click on Pages to see all existing pages. With blank pages, you click on the page to move quickly and also press the Delete key on the page to delete .

How to delete blank pages in Word using Paragraph
Delete blank page at the end in Word
Move your mouse to the bottom of the page and click the Paragraph icon as shown.

Next, you will need to highlight the entire Paragraph symbol and press the Delete or Backspace key to delete the blank page at the end.

Remove blank pages caused by Section Break or Page Break
When we create a page break in Word , a blank page will appear. If the blank page is due to a Section Break or Page Break, the user also needs to click on the Paragraph icon to display a message due to an error of Page Break or Section Break.

Next, place your mouse before the Page Break or Section Break character in Word as shown and press Delete to delete the blank page.

Delete blank page after Word table
Step 1:
You also click the Paragraph icon and then highlight the white space with the Paragraph character at the bottom of the table.

Step 2:
Press Ctrl+D to display the Font window. Select Hidden and click OK . Finally, click the Paragraph icon again and the blank page after the Word table has been deleted.

Instructions to delete blank page at the end of the table
Step 1:
Click on the table, then select the Layout tab, then click View Gridlines .

Step 2:
Press Ctrl + Shift + 8 (for Windows operating system) or Cmd + 8 (for Mac) and select all the ¶ symbols displayed below the table.

Step 3:
In the font size selection section, select 1 to delete the blank page at the end of the Word table and you're done.

How to delete any blank page in Word
For blank pages that are interspersed with content at any position, you can delete them in the following way.
Press Ctrl + Shift + * to display the line break characters ¶ in blank pages in Word as shown below.

Next, we just need to highlight all the characters ¶ below and press the Delete key to delete them.

Instructions to delete blank pages in Word 2007, 2010
How to delete the last blank page in Word
To delete the blank page that appears at the end of a Word file, place the mouse cursor at the end of the page with text and press the Delete key to delete it.
Or on a blank page you just need to press the Delete key to delete.

Delete blank Word pages between content
Place your cursor at the beginning of the page after the blank page , then press Backspace . The blank page will disappear immediately.

If the blank page is not deleted from the Word content, first place the cursor at the end of the page before the blank page. Next, hold down the Shift key and click the cursor at the beginning of the blank page, then press Delete to delete.
How to delete blank pages in Word using Paragraph
Delete blank page at the end of the document
The user moves to the end of the text, then presses Ctrl + Shift + * or clicks the Paragraph icon on the Home tab to display the paragraph break characters as shown below. We just need to highlight those characters and press the Delete or Backspace key to delete the blank page at the end of the text.

Remove blank pages caused by Page Break or Section Break
Usually when you break pages or sections in Word, blank pages with no content will appear.
The blank page due to Page Break is displayed with a message as shown.

As for the Section Break error, the content will be displayed as shown below.

Users click on the Paragraph icon as shown. Page Break or Section Break notifications will be displayed depending on the type of blank page displayed.

Next, we click on the first part in front of the Section Break or Page Break characters and press the Delete key to delete the blank page.

Delete blank page after Word table
This happens when the table is at the end of the Word document and the blank page is right behind the table.

First, we also click the Paragraph icon on the Home tab to display the characters that are not printed and then highlight all those characters on the blank page. Press the Ctrl + D key combination to bring up the Font dialog box. Here, you check the Hidden box and then click Ok .
Then click the Paragraph icon again and the blank page will disappear, and if there is content behind it, the content will automatically be pushed closer to the table.

Video tutorial on how to delete blank pages in Word in many ways
Above is a tutorial on how to delete blank pages on Word, with extremely simple implementation methods. Using the Delete key is the more popular way to delete blank pages.