Other issues of WordTips detail how you can insert section breaks and apply section formatting. Of the three, section formatting is often the most confusing formatting for people to understand. With paragraph symbols ( ¶) or other formatting symbols shown, you will also be able to see manual page breaks, so all you need to do is locate the manual page break, select it and delete it, and the pesky unwanted blank page will also be deleted.Word allows you to format your documents on three general levels: sections, paragraphs, and characters. Note: If you have a blank page that you can’t seem to get rid of in the very middle of your Word document, the blank page may be there because of a manual page break. Once all of the symbols have been deleted and there’s nothing left on the page, the page will be deleted as well.

If you find any paragraph symbols ( ¶) or other formatting symbols on the target page, simply select each of them one by one and delete them.

Check to see if there are any paragraph symbols ( ¶) or other formatting symbols on the page.

Navigate to the page you want to delete.

Click on the Show/Hide ¶ button to have Word display all the paragraph symbols and other formatting symbols in the document.

To delete a page in Word 2013 using this method, you need to:

You can enable this feature to see what’s on the target page and then delete everything that’s on there, consequently deleting the target page as well.

Microsoft Word users can have the word processor show them every single paragraph symbol and all other formatting symbols in a document, and you can use this to your advantage if you’re trying to delete a specific page of a document.

Method 4: Enable paragraph symbols and delete whatever is on the target page

Delete last page of a word document