how to delete multiple pages in a word document?

Question

how to delete multiple pages in a word document?

Answer 1

Even faster--Hold down Shift at starting point + press Page Down until you get to the end, then Delete. Goes a little faster than dragging to highlight. Worked for me anyway. Had 321 pages to delete.

Answer 2

This extra page is just blank lines that have accumulated during the typing of your draft... like when you hit enter, but then use arrow to come back up page... While in Print Preview, Go to the End of your document, and with cursor just After the final page # or final word... Hit delete, delete, delete, delete... until all the document Ends at your cursor. Good question. I do this all the time without thinking...

Answer 3

If this is a block of contiguous text, go to the beginning of the text and click then select all of the text by holding down the left mouse button and dragging to highlight all the text that you want to delete and then hit the delete key.



If the text is in blocks spread throughout the document, select each block individually and delete.



Word pages are not "real pages" in that when you add or delete text, the content of the pages that follow is adjusted to accommodate the amount of text.



One way to get to the magic 63 number would be to insert a section break at the end of the document and keep moving the text that you don't want into that section until the section break is at the end of the page number that you need (245). Then, delete everything after the section break and delete the section break as well.

Answer 4

Click at the beginning, hold down the key, click at the end. Hit