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How to Delete a Page/a Blank Page in Google Docs? [MiniTool News]

By Stella | Follow | Last Updated June 02, 2021

Summary :

If there is a blank page in Google Docs, do you know how to delete it from the document? Do you know how to remove your unwanted page in Google Docs? In this MiniTool post, we will show you how to delete a page in Google Docs using two methods.

How to Delete a Page/a Blank Page in Google Docs?

You can edit the documents in Google Drive using Google Docs. For example, you can open a Words file in Google Docs and then edit it. On the other hand, you can also create a new document in it and edit it based on your requirements.

There may be an unwanted page or a blank page in the document and you want to remove it. Do you know how to delete a page in Google Docs? There are different ways to remove a page in Google Docs under different situations. We will show them in this post. You can select your preferred method to help you out.

In this post, we will show you how to delete a page in Word on Windows and Mac. If you want to delete a blank page in Word, here is also a guide.

How to Delete a Blank Page in Google Docs?

Use the Backspace key
Use the Delete key

Way 1: Use the Backspace Key

This is the simplest method to remove a page in Google Docs. You can just move and locate your mouse at the end of the page you want to remove and then press the Backspace key to delete all blank lines on the blank page. This method also works if the page you want to delete contains texts.

use Backspace to delete a page in Google Docs

But if there are many text lines on the page, this method will cost you a lot of time. You can try other methods to delete the page.

Besides, if you can't use the Backspace key to delete the blank page and the key just make you go back to the previous page, you need to use the Delete key to delete the blank page. Please keep reading.

Way 2: Use the Delete Key

How to remove a page in Google Docs if the above method doesn't work for you? You can try the Delete key.

You need to move and click your mouse at the end of the previous page. Then, you need to press the Delete key to remove the blank page.

use the Delete key to delete the blank page

You can also highlight the blank line(s) in the blank page and then press the Delete key to remove the blank page.

If you want to delete all content on a page, you can also select all content on the page and press the Delete key to delete the page.

Tip 1: Narrow the Margin in Google Docs

At times, the blank space in a Google document is not the blank page. It is just a wide margin. This always happens to the first page of the document or the end of the document. You can change the settings for margins in the document to remove the extra blank space.

1. Go to File > Page setup.

2. On the small pop-out window, you need to set all values for Margins to 1 or whatever size you want to use. You should know that the smaller the margin number is, the smaller the margin size will be.

Tip 2: Recover Deleted Files from Google Drive

If you delete some important files by mistake, you can restore them from the Trash folder in Google Drive.

recover deleted files from Trash in Google Drive

However, if you can't find them in Trash, you need to use professional data recovery software to get them back. You can try MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a free file recovery tool.

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There is a premise: the deleted files should come from your computer or a USB drive. Third-party data recovery software can't recover documents that are created and edited in Google Drive. You can find more information from this post: How to Recover Deleted Google Drive Files (6 Methods).