Delete multiple pages in Word Online

Using a few different techniques, you may quickly delete numerous pages at once in Word Online. You have two options for selecting and removing pages: either separately or simultaneously using the Navigation pane. This tutorial article looks at both these techniques on how to delete multiple pages in Word Online in detail.

To delete multiple pages in Word online go to view in the navigation panel. The panel will open on the left. Now click on the thumbnail of the page you want to delete. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard to select other pages. Now hit delete on the keyboard.

How to delete multiple pages in Word Online?

The navigation option is a good way of having an overview of the document you are working on. Along with having an idea of the pages that do not belong in the document you can also delete them using the navigation option. Here is how it can be done.

• Open the Word Online document you would like to work with
• In the top menu of the document click on the “View” tab.

• To see the navigation panel you will need to activate it. For this click on the “Navigation pane” checkbox.

• The navigation panel will show on the left of the screen with thumbnails representing all the pages in the document.
• Click on the thumbnail of the page you want to delete to select it.
• If you want to delete multiple pages hold down the “Ctrl” key on your keyboard. Now click on the thumbnails of any additional pages you want to delete to select them.
• Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to delete the selected pages from your document.

How to remove all page breaks in Word Online?

It is common knowledge that page breaks add extra pages to documents. This is done by shifting text that’s after the break to a new page. But sometimes you end up with pages that you don’t even require. This section takes you through the process of removing all the page breaks.

• Locate and open the Word document that contains the pages you want to delete.
• Scroll through the document and go to the page you want to delete.
• Place the cursor at the beginning of the page.
• Hold down the “Shift” key on your keyboard.
• Now click at the end of the page you want to delete. By doing this you will select the entire page.
• Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to remove the selected page.

This method can be used for all the pages that need to be deleted in the document.

How to delete page breaks in Word Mac?

Here are the steps you can follow if you want to delete page breaks in Word Online.

• Locate and open the Word document you would like to edit.

• Show the non-printing characters in the document by clicking on the “Show/Hide” button. You will find it in the “Paragraph” section in the Home tab in the top ribbon.
• Click on the bottom that looks like a paragraph symbol (¶).

Scroll through the document and you will see all the page breaks marked. You will have a clear horizontal line with the text “Page Break” beside them.

• Locate the page break you want to delete.
• Click on the page break to select it.
• Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to remove the page break.

How to delete page breaks in Word Mac using the navigation panel?

Another way to delete page breaks in Word online is by using the navigation panel. Here are the steps you can follow.

• Open the Word document on your Mac system.
• Click on the “View” tab in the top ribbon of the document.

• Click on the “Navigation Pane” checkbox to open the Navigation pane. The Navigation Panel will show on the left side of the screen.

• In the Navigation panel, click on the “Pages” tab to display a thumbnail view of the document’s pages.
• Locate the page break you want to delete in the thumbnail view.
• Click on the page break to select it.
• Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to remove the page break.

Caution

Be aware that removing a page break will cause the content of the two adjacent pages to be combined.

How to remove section breaks in Word?

Here are the steps you can follow to remove section breaks in Word

• Open the Word document you would like to work with.
• Show the non-printing characters in the document by clicking on the “Show/Hide” button.
• The Show/hide button is in the “Paragraph” group on the “Home” tab. Look for the paragraph symbol (¶).
• Locate the section break you want to remove.
• Section breaks are represented by double horizontal lines with the text “Section Break (Next Page)” or “Section Break (Continuous)” beside them.
• Click on the section break to select it.
• Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to remove the section break.

How to delete multiple pages in Word?

If you are working on a Word document and need to delete multiple pages here are alternative steps to follow.

• Open the document
• Click on the first word of the page you want to delete. The cursor will move there
• Once you have the cursor left click and drag to the end of the page without releasing the click.
• This way all the text on that page will get selected.
• Now use the backspace or delete keys to delete the content and the extra page.

Here is another method you can use:

• Click on the last word on the page you want to keep
• The cursor will move there
• Now hit the delete key
• The extra page after that word will be deleted.

In conclusion

This article looked at extra pages in documents and how to get rid of them. Page breaks in documents can be deleted manually by scrolling through the document > identifying pages that need to be deleted > and then using the delete or backspace key. It can also be done using the navigation panel where you have an overview of the pages in the document.

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