[ray mc]

My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

[ray mc]

i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[ray mc]

i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[ray mc]

Sorry, i forgot to say that i need to fix this so i can send out my resume,
am out of work any help is greatly appreciated

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[ray mc]

Sorry, i forgot to say that i need to fix this so i can send out my resume,
am out of work any help is greatly appreciated

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.

[ray mc]

Thank you suzanne, I highlited the paragraph mark and changed the font to 1
and the page disappeared - thanks for your patience Ray

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.



.

[ray mc]

Thank you suzanne, I highlited the paragraph mark and changed the font to 1
and the page disappeared - thanks for your patience Ray

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.



.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you got it sorted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
Thank you suzanne, I highlited the paragraph mark and changed the font to
1
and the page disappeared - thanks for your patience Ray

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires
an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part
of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new
to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried
to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You
can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my
services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page
document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of
it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha
page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How
can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.



.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you got it sorted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
Thank you suzanne, I highlited the paragraph mark and changed the font to
1
and the page disappeared - thanks for your patience Ray

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Your résumé is almost certainly formatted as a table, and Word requires
an
empty paragraph following a table at the end of a document. See the part
of
my article that addresses that issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
i cannot highlite the minus sign to delete it, the explanations that you
gave
me don't make sense to me, if i go to the header and footer pane on the
ribbon as you ask ;i don't understand what to do next, i am fairly new
to
Word. also the link that Susanne gave me seems to overwhelm me, i tried
to
follow the directions, but to no avail, is there another way for me to
understand until i become more technical savvy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The long minus sign is almost certainly a Section Break and it is
probably a
Next Page Section Break which is what is causing the empty page. You
can
try selecting it and deleting it, but be aware that may affect the
headers
and footers if any that appear on the first page.

There are a couple of things that you can do to prevent that:

1 Go to the Header and Footer pane and click on the Next Section
button
until you get to the end of the document and then link the headers and
footers in that section to those in the previous section. After doing
that,
you can safely delete the Section Break

2. Put the selection at the end of the document, that is after the
long
minus sign and the go to the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog and
change
the Section start to Continuous

--
Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my
services
on
a paid professional basis.

"ray mc" wrote in message
...
My sister created a resume for me and changed it from a 2 page
document
to
a
1 page doc. The 2cd page is still there and no one can get rid of
it. I
tried
the help menu, 2 experienced Word users have tried to delete tha
page
with
no
success. There is a paragraph mark and what looks like a long minus
sign
on
the top of the page. There are no page breaks that i can see. How
can i
get
rid of this page?

Thanks for the help

.



.