I have a document that originally had 4 pages of text. Page one has some text, pages 3 and 4 are blank. I only want to keep page two. How do I get rid of page 1, 3 and 4?
Edit Fri May 10 23:41:31 CEST 2019 (Opaque): Moves OQs answer, since it doesn’t answer the question, deleted answer
I don’t have an answer. I don’d know how to delete whole pages.
Hello,
on the blank pages 3 and 4 go to first line and first charcter and press . This will delete the page break. (please assure that the pages are really empty). On the first page, select all the text, which is still in page on and delete that. If that doesn’t delete an exististing page break on page 1, then move the cursor to the first character of page 2 (in front of the character) and press again.
PS: There is no “Delete Page” function. You always need to delete pages by deleting the text contained in that page and by deleting manual page breaks existing in the page before the page you want delete (page break is on the previous page).
I have been trying for a very long time to figure out how to do the same thing. Like you, I just had to make sure when printing not to add the unwanted page to the printer list . Today I made a TEST document with two pages full of gibberish, so as not to ruin a good document. I found TWO very EASY ways to delete an unwanted page.
Method 1-is go to the first GOOD page… put cursor at the very LAST space on that page and hit CONTROL DELETE. Second page disappeared!
Method 2 -put cursor at the very FIRST space available on the page you want deleted and again hit CONTROL DELETE. Page disappeared! Works for me every time!
HOPE this works for you as well.
Now, MY PROBLEM is finding an easy way to ADD a page. No matter what I read about and try, unable to accomplish that task. I just keep hitting ENTER button until it brings me to a NEW page but there has to be an easier way. In the scheme of things, small problems, but annoying just the same. Good luck.
@CE2,
To add Page (or break to next page) Ctrl + Enter. If inserting new page in middle of existing you need to perform twice.
BTW, just tried your method & doesn’t do as you state. Only deleted next word. Ubuntu 18.04 with LO v6.2.0.3. Ctrl + Shift + Delete deleted paragraph.
Thanks for the instructions on how to add page - seems to Work!! TY! Hmmmmm… don’t know why my method did not help you – I just tried it several times again and it works for me. I don’t think the OS or version of LO matters… or does it? I am still using version 6.1 – Hope someone else will try my method to see if it works. Now I am more than curious! Thanks again.
BTW I tried Opaque’s method – does not work for me. Very strange.
Mybad - Upon re-reading Opaque’s method… IT DOES WORK on an empty page. I was trying it with a page with information on it… Thank you Opaque and Ratslinger
CONTROL DELETE helped me. I had a fixed page break because of changing a part of the document to horizontal orientation and this deleted a blank page that was before. Thanks!
Select on the page header and hit the backspace key. Blank page is removed and existing pages move up to fill in the removed page.
Let me make it simple for everyone.
I found a glitch that prevents blank pages going away. If you insert a frame (e.g. an image) on, for example, page 5 and in Frame > Position and Size you Anchor it “To page”, then even if you delete preceding page content and page breaks, the frame remains on page 5 preceded by blank pages with no content (or page breaks). Writer is doing what you told it (“anchor this to page 5 of what is now a shorter document”), but it’s unexpected.
I fixed this by temporarily changing the frame’s Anchor “To paragraph” so the frame jumps to the nearest paragraph and the empty pages go away. After you insert content and page breaks in front of it to get the frame onto the desired page, if you want you can change the frame’s Anchor back to “To page”. I still got some weird behavior that went away when I saved then File > Reload; and when you do this make sure the frame doesn’t anchor to a paragraph in a header or footer, otherwise it will appear on every page!
Turn on View > Formatting Marks (the backwards paragraph ¶ symbol), View > Text Boundaries, Section Boundaries, and Image and Charts so you can better see what’s going on.
It might be useful to read How do I anchor text to a page in a document? - #6 by ajlittoz which explains more about anchoring.