I have a document that I frequently update. This document was previously 2 pages but is now contained to one page. When printing, unless I remember to specify to print one page only, 2 pieces of paper go through to printer. How do I delete the second, unused, page in the document?
Thank you for the suggestions so far, however, following your instructions reveals no visible markings of any kind on page 2. On my keyboard F10 is the Audio Mute toggle button. I have tried several combinations of shift, control, option, and command buttons with F10 but all I get is the speakers turning off and on.
Ok, so go to View > Nonprinting characters. If it doesn't show any nonprinting character, see this page : http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/4403/nonprinting-characters-invisible-even-with-view/
Hope this works for others, it worked for me. I would also say to save your work before you start this. I made a copy of the document and tried it out on the copy first.
All my extra pages disappeared.
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I am not a technical kind of person and I just put the steps in the order that I did them. The vertical grey line appears when you click on the page you want to delete and I just backspaced that line and the pages disappeared.
No I am not using a special interface; just the latest version of Libre Office and the tabs that appear at the top of the page. Sorry I can not help with any other queries. I do not know why this worked and I found this solution by trial and error.
I tried to follow your steps using LO 7.0.4.2. You first Insert>Formatting Mark>No-width No Break (menu command, not a tab in the UI) to insert a special space character at the current cursor position (you didn't tell where it was; I assumed it is at the end of the document). The special character is displayed as a "gray vertical line" with the blinking cursor on it. You then delete backwards everything until you're satisfied.
You can simplify the process. Enable View>Formatting Marks. Go to the last page. The view mode displays the paragraph marks and this allows you to spot extraneous empty paragraphs which you can remove knowingly. No need to insert extra data.
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Thank you for that. I have looked and see what you mean. I am happy with my method as I had 6 empty pages to delete and I didn't need any extra marks on the page. I have to do things step by step as I am definitely not technical minded.
So glad your method worked for you. Thank you for taking the time to comment on this.
Asked: 2012-10-13 18:44:50 +0100
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I sympathize. I looked all through the menus for some way to show 'pages' (so I could delete one) or even a delete-page command. I thought, surely they wouldn't re-create the 'select and delete all the invisible formatting characters' feature of Word. But yes.
My solution: go to "table properties" (either right-click or in the table toolbar), go to the text flow tab and un-check the "Break" box. Also maybe try playing with the "allow row to break across pages" box. Hope that helps!
Same problem here. No solution works. What a mess. FIX THAT BUG please and offer a 'DELETE PAGE' Button/Menu.