(In Word 2010, access the Paragraph dialog by clicking on the dialog launcher arrow at the bottom right corner of the Although this type of formatting alone will not result in aīlank page, it frequently accounts for a partially empty page and could result in a blank page if the “blank” page contains a single paragraph mark formatted as “Page break before,” followed by another “Page break before” paragraph on the next page. Go to the Line and Page breaks tab of Format | Paragraph and see whether “Page break before” or “Keep with next” is checked. Whenever a page ends short for no apparent reason, examine the paragraph(s) at the top of the following The OpenOffice Writer program has done its job to justify these final lines so the word beginning each of them is appropriately flush left and the ending word is flush right.
If you don’t see a manual page break, the likelihood is that the page break is being caused by paragraph formatting. These spaces between the separate words of these final lines are huge. In text formatting, a double space means sentences contain a full blank line (the equivalent of the full height of a line of text) between the rows of words. Word 2010, the indicator will extend only part of the way across the page.) You can easily select this and delete it. It will be represented by a dotted line across the page labeled “Page Break.” (In Word 2010, access the Breaks gallery from the Page Setup group on the Delete any extra spaces, carriage returns etc.
(On Macs, go to View > Footnotes thanks to commenter Gerard for spotting this) In the drop-down list that appears in the Footnotes area, choose Footnote Separato r. This is one reason manual page breaks are discouraged: when formatting changes (either because of editing or because the document is opened on a system using a different printer), the manual page break may immediately follow a naturalĮven without displaying nonprinting characters, you should be able to see a manual page break that has been inserted usingĬtrl+Enter or Insert | Break: Page break (in Go to the References tab and click Show Footnotes. If your blank page occurs in the middle of a document (and is not caused by an Odd/Even Page section break), there is a remote chance that it is caused by a plethora of empty paragraphs, but more often it is the result