[schwine]

Thanks for the support, Suzanne.

I did have some success with this today.
Here's what I did.

Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to view the endnote pane.

In the drop-down menu that appears within the endnote pane I selected "Endnote
Separator," and this actually deleted one of the two blank pages at the end of my
document. Now I just have one blank page to deal with.

I tried the same procedure with the one remaining blank page but it didn't work a second time.

Regarding: try backspacing from the first one up to the last paragraph of text. If this is not allowed, try pressing Delete at the end of the last text footnote.

Whenever I try to backspace or delete the pilcrow paragraph symbols within the endnote pane the following error message appears: "This is not a valid action for endnotes."

Regarding: unless Word thinks (the empty paragraphs) are actually endnotes...
I don't think this is the case because there are no endnote numbers linked to these
pilcrow paragraph symbols.

Regarding: There will usually be SOME way to get rid of empty paragraphs
in the endnotes pane.

After today's partial success I believe that.
I guess I'll keep experimenting with things inside the endnotes pane.
That area seems to be the most productive for solving this problem.

Thanks again for the tips.

Originally Posted by schwine

At the end of my document there are two blank pages that I cannot
delete. When I try to delete them, the following message appears: "This is not a valid action for endnotes." Now I realize that Word thinks that my endnotes don't end until the bottom of the second blank page.

When I activate the end of line line symbol (sorry, I don't know the name of this symbol), the symbol appears throughout the two blank pages.

Now I'm trying to figure out why I can't backspace or delete these symbols from the two blank pages at the end of the document. Again, when I try to do so, the following error message prevents their deletion: "This is not a valid action for endnotes."

I think what I need to do at this point is declare to Word exactly where the Endnotes section ends. To do this, it seems like the following pathway would be helpful: insert / break / section break (next page).

The problem here is that all options within the "break" drop-down menu are greyed out and not selectable. I have placed the mouse cursor at the end of the Endnotes section to indicate where the section break should take place.

So at this point I'm stumped.
I can't seem to create a section break at the end of the Endnotes section, and thus, delete two blank pages that appear at the end of the document.

Thanks for any tips.

My version of Microsoft Word: 2004 for Mac