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Sometimes Word documents contain a last blank page that seems impossible to delete. Just place the cursor after the last character, press: Shift+Command+Forward Arrow key to select all after such last character, and then press the Delete key. That should delete the last blank page. [ crarko adds: There was a link to an example provided, but the document appears to have been moved or removed.

Still, I have observed this over the years, and it does qualify as a Word annoyance to be combatted. This is a way to do that, and a little quicker than doing a lot of backspacing.]. I have found a magnificent replacement to MS Word in Nisus Writer. Far easier to use, and no annoying idiosyncrasies such as a difficult to remove blank last page! The more advanced version Nisus Writer Pro has real power-user stuff: table of contents, indexing, cross references and search/replace with styles, etc, etc.

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