How to remove all page breaks in Word?

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Remove a manual page break. On the View menu, select Draft. In the document, select the manual page break, and then press DELETE. Adjust automatic page breaks. Select the paragraph following the unwanted page break. On the Format menu, select Paragraph, and then select the Line and Page Breaks tab. Clear the Keep lines together, Keep with next. Use the Find and Replace tool to delete extra breaks in a document. Go to the Home tab and, in the Editing group, select Replace. Or, press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box. In Word for Mac, use the Search box in the upper-right corner of the document. In the Find what text box, enter ^p^p (the letter p must be lower case). Sometimes when you create a Word document, you end up with an extra blank page at the end of the document that won't go away by pressing delete. This can happen say when you create a table that ends at the bottom margin on the previous page (the page that you wish to be the last page).

Working with a long document, we may need to insert page breaks to start a new page with a specific paragraph. We can set options to control where Word positions automatic page breaks, but only manual page break is removable. This tutorial is telling us how to remove page breaks in several ways.

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Remove a page break in word by pressing Delete key

1. If you cannot see the page breaks showing in the document, you need to show them by clicking Home > Show/HideEditing Marks button. See screenshot

2. Highlight the whole page break line, or place the cursor directly to the left of the page break line,

2. Then press the Delete key on your keyboard.

It is easy to use the above way to remove a page break in word, but how to remove dozens of page breaks? It is feasible to press the “Ctrl” key to select all page breaks and then press Delete key, but it seems time-consuming if the document has more than 100 pages.

Remove all page breaks using Find and Replace

Compared with the first method, the Find and Replace option saves you much time. You don’t need to select all page breaks one by one through a long document, and just a few steps will have it done.

Please apply this utility by clicking Home > Replace.

It will display a Find and Replace dialog. Click More>> button to show more options. See screenshot:

3. Place the cursor in the Find What field, and select the Manual Page Break from the Special pull-down menu.

4. There will be a “^m” character in the Find What field, and click Replace All.

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With Kutools for Word, it has never been so easy to remove all page breaks in the whole or the selection of a document.

After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Word Now!)

1. Cclick Kutools > Breaks > Remove Page Breaks. See screenshot:

2. After clicking Remove Page Breaks, a dialog pops out to remind you if remoev all page breaks from the whole documents, click Yes to continue.

Then all page breaks in the whole document or all the page breaks from the selected part of the document will be removed. See screenshots:

Note:
1. Only Kutools for Word will keep all formatting after removing page breaks in the document.
2. Remove Page Breaks also works at selection. Before applying Remove Page Breaks, select the paragraphs you want to remove the page breaks.

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  My word program is not allowing me to remove an unwanted page break. I have tried both methods that is illustrated on the web. But my mouse still does not allow the cursor to highlight the line on the left of the page break. This page break came automatically when I just wished for a line of star symbols not a page break. So what have I done wrong? Why is the removal of a page break so frustrating. I believe it should be a feature that word must fix to make it more user friendly like a click on the toolbar to remove these breaks when they are not needed.
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  I am doing Mail Merge with Table. But Section Break does not removed either find and replace or using KUTOOL.
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  After following above guidelines to remove all page breaks from one document, now the page break line does not show when I click on 'Insert' = page break. Even though it appears to 'break' I need to see the line. How can I bring it back for the current and all future documents? Thank you.
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  To reformat an entire document having many page breaks, I deleted them all at once following the search/replace guidelines above; however, now when I try to use the 'Insert' = Page Break, the page break line does not show. How can I have it back for current and future use? Thanks.

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    If you go to the end of your page. Put your cursor after the last line and Ctrl. Enter. It will insert a manual page [quote name='Myrtle']To reformat an entire document having many page breaks, I deleted them all at once following the search/replace guidelines above; however, now when I try to use the 'Insert' = Page Break, the page break line does not show. How can I have it back for current and future use? Thanks.[/quote]
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  Excellent help. It saved me a whole lot of time.

Users often ask how to get rid of a blank page that is being printed at the end or in the middle of a document. How to approach this problem depends on whether or not the page is actually blank. A simple test will help you decide: Can you see the page? That is, in Print Layout view or Print Preview, does Word display the empty page? If so, it is not really “blank.” Read the next section to find out how to deal with it. If the page is not displayed, even in Print Preview, unless you’re displaying facing pages, then the page really is “blank” and is being created by Word; see “True blank pages.”

Important Note: If your problem document is a résumé based on a Microsoft template, skip immediately to “Table at the end of the document.”

“Blank” pages that aren’t really blank

Except for the blank even or odd pages that Word inserts as needed before an Odd or Even Page break (see “True blank pages”), most “blank” pages aren’t really blank. If a page “prints,” it’s because there is something on it. Obviously, that something is invisible to the user. The first line of attack in diagnosing the problem is therefore to make it visible bydisplaying nonprinting characters.

• Word 2003 and earlier: Press Ctrl+* or click on the Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar.

Figure 1a. The Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar

• Word 2007 and above: Press Ctrl+* or click on the Show/Hide ¶ button in the Paragraph group of the Home tab on the Ribbon

Figure 1b. The Show/Hide ¶ button on the Home tab

When you do this, you’ll suddenly see a lot of markings that may be unfamiliar to you if you’ve never before displayed nonprinting characters (or “formatting marks”). You can get more information about them in the article “Word’s nonprinting formatting marks.”

The one you want to concentrate on is the paragraph mark: ¶. Every time you see that mark, it indicates an empty paragraph. Delete all the empty paragraphs and you’ll most likely get rid of your “blank page.” The following sections will explain a few situations in which deleting empty paragraphs will not work or will not suffice.

Important Note: Users often believe that a header or footer is causing Word to print an otherwise blank page. The truth is actually the reverse: the presence of content is causing Word to generate an apparently empty page that has the default header or footer; get rid of what is causing the page, and the header/footer will vanish with it.

Table at the end of the document

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If your problem document is a résumé based on a Microsoft template, it will almost certainly be created using a (borderless) table. In Word 2007 and above, this is easy to diagnose because, when you click anywhere in the document, the contextual Table Tools tab is added to the Ribbon. In earlier versions, you may have no such clue. To make the table easier to visualize and work with, you need to display the table gridlines (which show the cell boundaries:

• Word 2003 and earlier: Click View Gridlines on the Table menu.

• Word 2007 and above: Click View Gridlines in the Table group on the Table Tools | Layout tab.

If there is a table at the very end of your document (of if, in the case of a résumé, the whole document is a table), Word will insist on having an empty paragraph after the table. You will not be able to delete this paragraph because the paragraph holds the formatting for the entire document (or the last section if there is more than one). The end-of-table marker cannot hold this information because it contains information about the formatting of the table.

If your table completely fills the “last” page, the empty paragraph will result in a “blank” page following it. Although you cannot remove this paragraph, you can make it disappear. One way to do this is to make it very small. Select the paragraph mark and format the font size to 1 point. You may need to make the paragraph line spacing 1 point as well. Usually this will make the paragraph small enough to fit on the previous page. If it does not, you will need to make the paragraph Hidden (see below). If you make the paragraph Hidden, it will not disappear until you again hide nonprinting characters (by pressing Ctrl+* or clicking the Show/Hide ¶ button).

To format the paragraph mark (or any text) as Hidden, select it and press Ctrl+Shift+H; sometimes this doesn't 'take' for paragraph marks, so you will need to use one of these other methods:

• Word 2003 and earlier: Click Format on the Menu Bar, then Font; then check the box for Hidden and click OK.

• Word 2007 and above: Access the Font dialog by clicking the dialog launcher (small curved arrow) in the bottom right corner of the Font group on the Home tab. Check the box for Hidden and click OK.

• In any version, you will usually find Font… on the context menu if you right-click. Check the box for Hidden and click OK.

Blank page in the middle of a document

If your blank page occurs in the middle of a document (and is not caused by an Odd/Even Page section break), there is a remote chance that it is caused by a plethora of empty paragraphs, but more often it is the result of a manual page break. This is one reason manual page breaks are discouraged: when formatting changes (either because of editing or because the document is opened on a system using adifferent printer), the manual page break may immediately follow a natural page break, causing a blank page.

• Word 2003 and earlier: A manual page break is inserted using Ctrl+Enter or Insert | Break: Page break.

• Word 2007 and above: A manual page break is inserted using Ctrl+Enter or through the Breaks gallery in the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab on the Ribbon.

In order to see a representation of a manual page break, you must display nonprinting characters. In Word 2003 and earlier, the break is displayed as a dotted line across the page. In Word 2007 and later, it is a shorter line.

Figure 2a. How a manual page break is represented in Word 2003 and earlier

Figure 2b. How a manual page break is represented in Word 2007 and above.

Partially blank page in the middle of a document

Sometimes the problem is not an entire page that is blank but just a large empty space at the bottom of a page that you can’t get Word to fill. If you don’t see a manual page break, the likelihood is that the page break is being caused by paragraph formatting. Whenever a page ends short for no apparent reason, examine the formatting of the paragraph(s) at the top of the following page to see whether “Page break before” or “Keep with next” is checked.

• Word 2003 and earlier: Go to Format | Paragraph and select the Line and Page Breaks tab.

• Word 2007 and above: Access the Paragraph dialog by clicking on the dialog launcher arrow at the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group on theHome tab of the Ribbon and select the Line and Page Breaks tab.

• In any version, right-click in the paragraph and select Paragraph... from the context menu, then select the Line and Page Breaks tab.

• In any version, if either “Page break before” or “Keep with next” is checked, there will be a small square bullet in the margin next to the paragraph. Double-click on that to open the Paragraph dialog with the Line and Page Breaks tab selected.

Figure 3. The Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog in Word 2010

Although “Page break before” or “Keep with next” formatting alone will not result in a blank page, it frequently accounts for a partially empty page and could result in a blank page if the “blank” page contains a single paragraph mark formatted as “Page break before,” followed by another “Page break before” paragraph on the next page.

True blank pages

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Does your document have more than one section? You can find this out by pressing Ctrl+End (to go to the end of the document) and looking at the status bar. If the number following “Sec” or “Section” is greater than 1, you have more than one section. (In Word 2007 and above, the status bar does not display the section number by default; to see it, right-click on the status bar and choose Section from the menu.)

When your document has more than one section, they are separated by section breaks. You can see the different kinds of section breaks as follows:

• Word 2003 and earlier: Click Insert | Break to open the Break dialog.

Figure 4a. The Break dialog in Word 2003

• Word 2007 and above: Access the Breaks gallery from the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab on the Ribbon.

Figure 4b. The Breaks gallery in Word 2010

A Continuous section break does not cause a page break. A Next Page break causes the following text to start a new page. An Odd Page break causes the following text to start a new odd page. If the text before the break ends on an odd page, Word will insert a blank even page between the two odd pages. This page is completely invisible to the user (except in Print Preview with facing pages displayed) but will be “printed” by the printer. Similarly, an Even Page break may cause Word to insert a blank odd page.

Sometimes a Next Page break will be converted to an Odd Page break. This frequently happens when a landscape page appears on the back of a portrait one, or vice versa. The reason for this is that most printers really don’t like to print landscape; rotating text and graphics is apparently a more complex operation for them. It seems to be especially difficult for them to duplex (print both sides of) pages with different orientations. Word accommodates this reluctance by changing Next Page breaks to Odd Page so the printer can print the pages on separate sheets. But you don’t have to put up with this laziness; you can make the printer shape up and do what you want!

If you find that your Next Page break has morphed into an Odd Page break, don’t make the mistake of trying to delete and reinsert it. This may result in loss of formatting and rarely accomplishes what you want. Instead, with the insertion point below the section break (in the section that begins with the wrong kind of break), go to the Layout tab of Page Setup:

• Word 2003 and earlier: Use File | Page Setup or double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler. Select the Layout tab.

• Word 2007 and above: Access the Page Setup dialog by clicking the dialog launcher arrow at the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab or double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler. Select the Layout tab.

Change the “Section start” back to “New page.”

Figure 4. The Page Setup dialog showing the 'Section start' dropdown

Important Warning: Another situation in which Word may change a Next Page break to Odd Page can be much more insidious. If you are restarting numbering in each section (so that the first page of each section is 1), and you have either 'Mirror margins' or 'Different odd and even' (headers and footers) enabled (or possibly even if you don't), Word will assume that you are intending to duplex the document and will force an Odd Page break because it knows that page 1 is an odd page, and it will insist that the odd page be printed on the front (recto) side of a sheet.

What makes this situation particularly insidious is that the Layout tab of Page Setup may still show the break as 'New page,' and the section break marker may still say 'Section Break (Next Page),' but the 'next page' will be a recto one, preceded by a blank verso (even) page if necessary. This can be especially difficult to troubleshoot if the document is one you did not create, even more so if the page number is not displayed (printed) on the page, so that you may not realize that numbering has been restarted.

The most disastrous result of all this, however, is that, despite the fact that, in your view, the new section begins with page 1, Word considers that preceding blank page part of the new section, so if you try to use Page X of Y numbering in that section, you will get a Y value that is one larger than the last page number; for example, in a section with pages numbered 1 to 6, you'll get Page 1 of 7, Page 2 of 7, all the way to Page 6 of 7 on the last page. Whether this is an argument against restarting numbering or against using Page X of Y or just against not trying to combine them with an Odd Page section start I leave it to you to decide!

Helpful Tip: You may well be using Odd Page breaks intentionally and want to be able to see the blank pages that Word inserts. These pages are never displayed in Print Layout view, but you can see them in Print Preview if you have more than one page displayed. The problem is that Word shows pages 1 and 2, then 3 and 4, and so on. If you are laying out a book and want to see true facing pages (1 alone, then 2 and 3, and so on), these conditions must be met:

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• You have enabled either “Mirror margins” (on the Margins tab of Page Setup) or “Different odd and even” (on the Layout tab of Page Setup or in the Options group on the Header & Footer Tools | Design tab in Word 2007 and above), and

• You display two or more pages in Print Preview. Although you can display multiple pages on the Print tab of the Backstage in Word 2010 and above (by reducing the Zoom), you may prefer the classic Print Preview, which can be accessed by adding Print Preview Edit Mode to the Quick Access Toolbar.

Blank pages not caused by Word at all

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If you are getting a blank page at the end of every document you print and have exhausted all other explanations, check the printer Properties to see whether there is a “separator page” option that has been enabled.

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