How do I keep OpenOffice from making a 2nd blank page?

[aaron.mccormick]

Each time I make a one page document, there is an additional blank page added at the end which is, unfortunately, getting things confused at the moment.. especially come print time!

actually this is a two part question
1) how to keep it from generating the extra page
2) how to delete that page if/when it ever comes back

[jrkrideau]

[aaron.mccormick]

thanks for responding.


What is your OS and version of OOo/LO?
3.1.1.

What is the Page Style you are using?
I always just use the default, unless there is something in cut-pasted formatting getting in the way of line spacing, in which case I just highlight the suspect area, set it back to default and then type it over again.

By template, well, I don't really use anything I would call a template because I am only referring to a single page created with New---->Text Document. I will type out something on the first page, but then I can scroll down to see an additional blank page has been mysteriously attached to the end. It gets very annoying because the printer wants to print that page, too.

I remember page count and deletion used to be obvious, but I think they made some changes to the menu.

[jrkrideau]

[aaron.mccormick]

Could you please just help me? I don't want to download that. (not right now)

I was hoping someone could just tell me how to delete a page.


I understand that I used OpenOffice terminology improperly, and that I could serve to
learn more, but... How do you just delete an entire page if you don't want it??

I use a Macintosh.

[keme]

I assume you are working in Writer. Writer creates pages "on the fly" when there is content that needs the extra space. The most common cause of an extra page at the bottom is trailing empty paragraphs. Select menu item View - Control characters to show markers for invisible characters (such as linefeeds, paragraph markers, spaces) so you can see if that is what causes your problem. Delete that content and the page will go away.

Is that not it? More info please!
- Working in a different application?
- Does the extra page occur immediately or only after some editing?
- What kind of content do you have? (Large graphics, tables or textboxes filling entire page, or just text?)

[aaron.mccormick]

Thanks keme, that solved the problem.

If OpenOffice refers to all of it's different apps in a Mac menu by the same name: 'OpenOffice.org', then that would certainly explain why I didn't know I was supposed to define my OpenOffice app's name as "Writer", but yes, I see it's probably 'Writer' now.

Anyways, I think I found what you are talking about but since this is on a Mac, the menu is totally different. On a Mac this is (apparently) called View--> Nonprinting Characters

I unchecked it, and the second page went away... when it checked it again, it didn't come back. I wonder how to prevent this phenomenon from re-occurring in the outset, but no big deal and thank you just the same.

[keme]