MS Word is adding an extra carriage return that results in an empty page...

[homercles337]

Any idea how i can get rid of that little ah heck?

 

[Fardringle]

Click on the ¶, then press Delete.

 

[homercles337]

Click on the ¶, then press Delete.

One of the first things i tried.

 

[postmortemIA]

click before it.

 

[homercles337]

click before it.

Before it, delete, does nothing. Highlighting it, delete, does nothing. Highlight, right click, cut, does nothing. Nothing i do deletes that little shit. Im sure you guys can tell this is my resume and i can not have that extra page...

 

[Engineer]

Click before it and hit backspace?

(I'm guessing you already tried this)?

By the way, your resume looks like shit. Can't read it at all! :biggrin:

 

[homercles337]

So, it turns out that ending a page with a table totally borks word. There is no way to "delete" that thing, but making the font in that line tiny gets it to pop back up where it belongs.

 

[postmortemIA]

Another option would be to decrease bottom margin.

 

[Dstoop]

Another option would be to decrease bottom margin.

This. Tables and other "objects" in word have a certain default whitespace forced around them. If put too close to the bottom margin, it'll cause that phantom page. Pushing the bottom margin down or pulling the table up a line or so usually takes care of it.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

That is probably the best found I have every seen. Link?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

This. Tables and other "objects" in word have a certain default whitespace forced around them. If put too close to the bottom margin, it'll cause that phantom page. Pushing the bottom margin down or pulling the table up a line or so usually takes care of it.

Basically this.

A paragraph mark will always naturally follow a table in Word if you are using standard text flow. There are some ways around it by using Insert Object or placing a table in a text box but those methods can cause more problems than the paragraph mark creates if you don't know what you are doing.

One thing you can do - besides adjusting the white space around the table (which is a result of both the Table Properties and the Before paragraph settings for the style applied to that paragraph mark) - is to create a style called "Table PM." Set both the Before and After paragraph settings for that style to 0 and make the font size 1 or 2. That way, even though you can't get rid of it, the mark will take up the smallest amount of space possible.