How to Remove Page Breaks in Word

Delete manual page breaks one at a time or all at once, and fix the automatic breaks you can't delete.

1. Turn on formatting marks

   On the Home tab, click the paragraph mark button (¶), or press Ctrl+Shift+8 on Windows or Cmd+8 on Mac. Manual page breaks now show as a dotted line labeled Page Break, so you can see exactly what you're deleting.

2. Click the break and delete it

   Click at the very start of the Page Break line and press Delete (or click just after it and press Backspace). The text below jumps up to fill the page.

3. Remove every break at once with Find and Replace

   Press Ctrl+H (on Mac, Edit menu, Find, Advanced Find and Replace). Type ^m in the Find what box, leave Replace with empty, and click Replace All to strip every manual page break from the document.

4. Fix automatic breaks in paragraph settings

   Breaks Word inserts at the end of a full page can't be deleted, but if a paragraph keeps jumping to a new page, select it, open the paragraph settings dialog, click Line and Page Breaks, and uncheck Page break before and Keep with next.

5. Turn formatting marks back off

   Click the ¶ button again to hide the marks, then scroll through the document to confirm the layout flows the way you want.