Today I’m going to show you how to delete pages in Word. Maybe you have unwanted content on some of your pages which you want to get rid of by deleting the entire pages. Or there are some blank pages at the end of your Word document that you want to delete.

In this post, you’ll learn how to remove a single page or multiple pages in MS Word using the methods outlined below.

The default option to delete pages in Word is to select and delete the content on the pages, then Word will automatically delete the page as well. Microsoft Word doesn’t deal with pages. Rather, it deals with the text (content) on those pages. Therefore, there’s no way you can delete pages in Word with a single action unless with the help of some VBA code which I’ll share with you soon.

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This option involves selecting all the text on the page or pages that you want to delete and then delete by either using the Delete key or Backspace.

Without further ado, below is how you can select and delete pages in MS Word.

Quick Solution:

Word will automatically delete all the pages that were holding the content.

If you don’t understand the above simple steps, please keep reading below for further explanations.

In MS Word, one of the simplest ways you can select and delete blank or unwanted pages is to use the navigation pane.

It allows you to view the pages thumbnails, which you can select and delete with the delete key.

Obey the steps below to learn how:

As soon as you press the delete key, the selected page will get deleted.

Just know that in Word you can only select and delete the pages one after the other. You cannot perform a bulk delete unless with the help of some Macro which you’ll also learn later in this tutorial.

In this method, I assume that you want to delete only one page in your Word document. You’ll learn how to delete multiple pages in the next section.

With this approach, you can easily delete only the current page.

Thus, if you’re not on the page you want to remove, navigate to that page and click inside the page.

If you are already on the page you want to delete, then let’s get started with the steps below:

NOTE: If there were pages after the deleted page, those pages will shift to replace the page or pages you just deleted.

Using the Find and Replace, you can also select and delete multiple pages all at once.

This is particularly useful if the pages you want to delete are many and consecutive, like page 23 to 30 (7 consecutive pages).

To select and delete such multiple pages in Word, the steps are outlined below:

This is how you may delete multiple pages in Word.

Another way you may delete pages in Word is to highlight all the content on the pages you want to delete using the mouse, then press delete.

To highlight or select an entire page using the mouse:

Go to the page you want to select and position your cursor at the beginning of the text. Click and hold your primary mouse button (i.e. the left-button). While holding the mouse button, drag the cursor to the end of the text on the page, and then let go of the mouse button.

Bonus Tip: If you are deleting multiple pages using the mouse to select, zoom the pages to say 10% or 20% so that you can see many pages on the screen at the same time. Then use the mouse to select the pages you want to remove and press the delete key to delete them.

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You can also select and delete pages in Word using the keyboard.

To do so, place your cursor at the start of the page, and press Ctrl+Shift+down-arrow. Word will be making the selection by paragraph after paragraph until the last paragraph.

To deselect a paragraph, whilst still pressing down the Ctrl+Shift, press the up-arrow key.

As soon as you delete the text, Word will delete the page as well. However, if there were pages after the deleted page, those pages will replace the deleted pages.

At times, you may not just want to delete pages, but some extra blank pages especially at the end of the document.

Normally, this extra page is caused by a non-removable end-paragraph that gets pushed down to a new blank page.

When that happens, deleting this page with the Delete or Backspace key won’t work.

Instead, you should format the end-paragraph to fit into the preceding page.

The steps below will show you how.

As soon as you change the font size of the last paragraph mark, it will fit into the preceding page, deleting the unwanted blank page.

By default, you can’t delete pages in word with a single action; like typing in the page number of the pages you want to delete, and then with a click on a button, the pages will be deleted.

However, with the help of some VBA code, this task is possible.

All you have to do is type the page numbers into a box separated with a comma, then click OK to delete the specified pages.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Sub DeletePagesInWord()

    Dim iRange As Range

    Dim iPage As String

    Dim iDoc As Document

    Dim iPageCount As Integer

    Dim iArr

    Dim I, xSplitCount As Long

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

    Set iDoc = ActiveDocument

    iPage = InputBox(“Enter the page numbers of pages to deleted: ” & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _

“NOTE: Use comma to separate page numbers”, “Delete Pages”, “”)

    iArr = Split(iPage, “,”)

    iPageCount = UBound(iArr)

    For I = iPageCount To 0 Step -1

        Selection.GoTo wdGoToPage, wdGoToAbsolute, iArr(I)

        iDoc.Bookmarks(“\Page”).Range.Delete

    Next

    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

Here’s how the editor will look after pasting the above code:

If the code works fine, save the Macro and assign it to a shortcut key or pin it to your Quick Access Toolbar. The remaining steps will show you how to pin a macro code to the QAT.

Now you’ll have the macro available on your QAT. This is just a onetime process. The next time you want to delete pages in Word, you don’t have to go through all the steps, you just click on the macro icon from the QAT and Word will prompt you for the page number of the pages you want to delete.

This is a very quick way to delete the current page in your document.

Using the steps in the preceding approach to delete pages in Word, you can use the macro below to save the day:

Sub DeleteCurrentPage()

    ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(“\Page”).Range.Delete

End Sub

You can assign this macro to a shortcut key so that you can easily delete the current page or pin it to the QAT as shown in option 6.

To assign a Macro to a keyboard shortcut read this guide.

You can use the options above to remove pages in word.

However, if you try all the options on this page and still cannot delete some pages in your document, please let me know by your comment below.