Google Docs: 4 Ways to Delete Extra Pages in Your Document

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Have you ever encountered a random blank page at the end of your Google Docs document? Or perhaps you've got one page that you want to remove from your document but you're not sure how—or your document is just a little bit longer than you wanted it to be. While there are a number of reasons you might want to delete a page in Google Docs, it is thankfully a pretty simple process. In this article we'll teach you four methods to delete a page in Google Docs, all of which can be completed in four steps or less.

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Deleting Text or Spaces

Step 1 Locate the page you want to delete.

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Locate the page you want to delete. It could be the last page in your Google Doc or somewhere else. You may notice that there's a random blank page at the end of your document and you want to remove it. Scroll through your document to find what page you want to delete.

Step 2 Highlight the text on the page.

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Step 3 Delete the text.

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Deleting a Page Break

Step 1 Look through your document for blank or partially-blank pages.

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Look through your document for blank or partially-blank pages. If you notice that there is a page in the middle of your document that is fully blank or partially blank, you may have accidentally added a page break to your document. Page breaks tell a word processor to start a new page, regardless of how much text is on the current page.

Step 2 Click View ></p>
<p>Show print layout.

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Click View > Show print layout . The document view will change to show any print layout formatting that is usually hidden. [1] X Research source

Step 3 Look for a gray line in your document.

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Look for a gray line in your document. This signifies that a page break was added. If you have random blank or partially-blank pages in your document, you should see a gray page break line on those pages.

Step 4 Place your cursor under the gray line and hit ← Backspace or Delete.

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Changing Text Attributes

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Step 2 Remember to keep document formatting and legibility in mind.

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Changing Margins

Step 1 Click File ></p>
<p>Page setup.

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Click File > Page setup . This will open a menu that allows you to adjust certain attributes about your document, including margins—the white space around the perimeter of each page. If you need to reduce the amount of pages in your document, you can try to adjust the margins to add more text space to each page.

Step 2 Change the margin numbers.

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