How To Delete a Page in WPS Office

WPS Office Users transitioning from Another Office Suite may have trouble selecting a page and deleting it. The reason is that, unlike most other programs used for creating slides (in presentation formatting), WPS Writer treats documents as a single flow of written text. Therefore, rather than removing content on a specified page with one action, the way to “remove” the entire page from the Writer application is to delete all content, formatting markers, and page breaks that cause the page to be displayed.

This content will describe how to remove a page from WPS Writer using the methods specific to the Writer application, and the process for removing a page from a PDF file in WPS Office.

Scenario A: Deleting a Page in WPS Writer

WPS Office allows you to remove extra blank pages in the following ways:

Method 1: The Standard Method (Content Deletion Method)

If the page contains text or images, delete the content by following this procedure:
Go to the page you want to delete.
Select the entire content of the page by using the mouse to identify the content from the beginning to the end of the page; and
Press the Delete key or Backspace key on your keyboard.
The Issue – If a blank page appears after deleting the text, simply press backspace again to delete the hidden “page break.”

Method 2: Deleting Invisible Blank Pages (Paragraph Formatting Marks)

Sometimes when you hit backspace, you may find a blank page at the end of your document that does not go away. Blank pages can be caused by invisible paragraph formatting characters or section breaks.

To remove these invisible characters:

Click on the Home tab at the top of your screen.
Look for the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (¶). Click on the icon to show all hidden formatting; this will reveal that there are often many paragraph symbols (¶) or broken lines titled Page Break/Section Break.
Highlight these formatting marks and press Delete to eliminate them so that the blank page is removed.

Method 3: Deleting Blank Pages in Long Documents with the Navigation pane

For long documents (50+ pages), scrolling manually is inefficient.

Click on the View tab.
Check the box next to Navigation Pane; the navigation pane will appear on the left side of your screen.
Select the Section Navigation icon (which typically looks like four small squares or square-shaped thumbnails).
Click on the thumbnail of the page you wish to delete so that you can quickly switch to it.

Note: Unlike PDF editing software, the thumbnails are not delete able by right-clicking; you will still have to delete these pages from the main canvas.

Scenario B: Removing Pages From A PDF

Removing pages from PDF files is very different from removing pages from regular WPS Office documents. WPS Office includes a dedicated tool for removing pages from PDFs, but it typically requires either a Premium (Pro) version or a free trial to access.

Open the PDF in WPS’s PDF Editor.
Select the “Pages” tab at the top of the page.
It will display each page of the PDF on the grid.
Select any pages you wish to delete.
Select the Delete icon in the toolbar (Trash can icon).
Be sure to save to keep the deleted pages removed.

Troubleshooting: Why won’t the page delete?

If you’ve tried everything mentioned above and you still have a page left over, chances are it’s due to one of two technical issues:

Locked Section Break: When your document has sections with different margins or different orientations (Landscape vs Portrait), WPS creates a “Section Break [Next Page]” between those sections. You will need to delete that section break to delete the page, but keep in mind that when you do this, you might revert the formatting of that section.

Table at the End: If you have a table at the end of your document, WPS Writer creates a blank paragraph line after the table. Because a page can’t end with a table, without a paragraph line, it creates a new empty page below it. To remedy this, select the paragraph mark (¶) located on the empty page, and apply a font size of 1. It will shrink the line far enough down so that it fits back onto the previous page.