(And my patient hubby is very grateful that my agonizing saga with Word section break anomalies is over.
Press Ctrl + Shift + 8 on Windows or Cmd + 8 on Mac. If a strange blank page appears in the middle of your Word document, its likely due to an unintentional page break or extra paragraph markers that you cant see. :D Extend Office folks-you rock! I will be recommending your brilliant add-ins to my other techy family and friends. Method 1Method 1 of 3:Deleting a Blank Middle Page. THEN-opened up the copy of the book (final edited copy due today, btw), ran Kutools "remove section breaks"-and VOILA! NO MORE SECTION BREAKS! YAY! Happy, happy me. After installation, I tried Kutools on a small 5 page doc -inserting section breaks and page breaks, then removed them easily. So next, I made a new copy of the doc and downloaded Kutools for Word. Not cool to have to do all that work over again-about 10-12 hours of re-formatting. I used the VBA Macro as well (in a copy of the document, as a trial.) The only way that worked was after clearing ALL the formatting in the entire book. Select and delete the page break you inserted in step 2.
Click the Page Number button in the Header & Footer section, and then choose where. Go to the Layout tab on the Ribbon and click the Breaks button, then choose the Next Page option. Click the page you want to start numbering from.
Select and delete the final section break. How to Insert Page Number in Word 2019 / 2016 from Specific Page. In the Replace With box, dont type anything, leave it blank Note: If there is no space between first and last words of old lines once your remove breaks, type a space into the replace with box.
Most breaks I was able to delete using your directions for Find/Replace, but STILL- seven breaks remained that were hidden. Word applies to the last section the column formatting that you accepted in step 17 for the next-to-last section. If you selected Manual Line Break, type: l. Or you can set up rules for Word to follow so that the automatic page breaks are placed where you want them. If you want the page to break in a different place, you can insert a manual page break. Thank you, thank you! I'm editing a book for an author (300 pages) and couldn't get rid of the 27 section breaks, even after following advice from online MS experts. Microsoft Word 2013: Insert and Delete Page Breaks Word automatically inserts a page break when you reach the end of a page.