Remove trailing para mark

[Peter Kinross]

I come across this frequently.
At the end of a doc there is a last para mark, not part of my text or formatting, that cannot be removed. Yes I am aware that it carries some doc info, but when it causes a new blank page it is extremely frustrating. Surely Word could move that info it contains to the previous para mark.

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Anyone know how I can remove it?

[StuartR]

Copy everything EXCEPT for this paragraph mark and paste it into a new document?

[HansV]

It looks like there is a page or section break at the end of the next-to-last page. Could you remove that?
If not, it may be possible to hide the empty last page:

Select the last paragraph mark.
Activate the Font dialog (Ctrl+D).
Tick the 'Hidden' check box.
Click OK.

[Peter Kinross]

Thanks Stuart. Worth a try. Sadly it didn't work, the pesky trailing para mark is pasted, even though it wasn't copied.
Thanks Hans. In the past, if I deleted that section break, it messed up my formatting. However, I tried it this time and voila the blank page has gone.
By the way - love the Christmas clogs!

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[Jay Freedman]

For future reference, http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/BlankPage.htm has just about everything you'll need to know about getting rid of blank pages.

[Peter Kinross]

Interesting info, thanks Jay

[DaveA]

The one near the arrow is in the footer. The one on the next page is because the columns run to the bottom the page above.

Just reduce the "Header/Footing size a bit and the bottom marker will move up.