How can I remove pagebreaks from Microsoft Word?

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supercoolville picture supercoolville · Apr 16, 2012 · Viewed 46.6k times · Source

Word documents are split into pages by default. How do I remove the page breaks and make my document 1 continuous page?

Example of a page break (circle 1):

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Answer

hkwint picture hkwint · Jun 14, 2012

Depends on what you exactly mean:

-If you don't want page breaks to appear on the screen, select "View" --> "Web Layout". Page breaks do still exist, but you don't see them anymore.

-If you want to 'delete' all "manual page breaks" in a document (page breaks usually added by hitting "Ctrl+Enter"), replace "^12" with "" (empty string).

So, hit Ctrl+H, at "Find what" type ^12, leave "Replace with" empty, and then hit "Replace all".

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