Go to the penultimate section, select File / Print and then choose Page Setup at the bottom of the print properties.

If they aren't, use the Header/Footer toolbar to set it to this.

Make sure that both the Header and Footer are set to “Same as Previous”.

If it's a continuous section break, you will first need to temporarily create a page break at the end of the document, so that you don't go into the previous section's Header.

Go to the very end of the document, and go into the final section‘s header.

Fortunately there is workaround you can use it to get rid of it. If you want to get rid of it, you first have to make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one. It shows spaces, tabs, Line Breaks, Paragraph marks and more.However what isn't that easy is removing the last section in the document. Show All is incredibly useful when you’re trying to figure out why some part of a document looks the way it does. It’s the same symbol that Word uses to mark the end of a paragraph.īack in the dim past of Word, Show All was hidden from the default toolbars but Microsoft finally relented and made it more obvious to everyone. Look for the Pilcrow symbol at Home | Paragraph. This reveals the invisible characters and breaks in the document.

The rest of these tips relies on the trick that all Word users should know, the Show All button. Press Ctrl + End to move the Word cursor to the very end of the document then press Backspace to remove unwanted and unseen characters back to the end of the text. It can simply be some extra paragraph marks at the end of a document.

There are also cases of a mystery blank page in the middle of a document at the end of a section or chapter. The most common type of extra page is at the end of a document. It’s a simple question – How can I delete a blank page in Microsoft Word? The answer isn’t so simple because there are many reasons for Word to add another page and various tricks to getting rid of them.

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