deleting ^p before and after table

WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and below the
table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a blank
page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

shank wrote:
WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and
below the table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a
blank page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

It should be possible to delete the one above the table. However, there is
no way to remove the one below the table (as designed).

Select each one and format it to a font size of 1 point. It won't be gone,
but it will be as small as possible.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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shank wrote:
WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and
below the table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a
blank page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

It should be possible to delete the one above the table. However, there is
no way to remove the one below the table (as designed).

Select each one and format it to a font size of 1 point. It won't be gone,
but it will be as small as possible.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.
=============================
I couldn't delete either of them, but the 1pt trick did what I needed.
thanks

You can also format them as Hidden, which in some ways is preferable.
Although they will show up when you show nonprinting characters (including
Hidden text), and this will affect the page layout, it's easy to "lose"
paragraphs formatted as 1 point, especially if you forget you did it or
someone else (who doesn't know you did it) has to deal with the document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"shank" wrote in message
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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shank wrote:
WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and
below the table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a
blank page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

It should be possible to delete the one above the table. However, there
is no way to remove the one below the table (as designed).

Select each one and format it to a font size of 1 point. It won't be
gone, but it will be as small as possible.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.
=============================
I couldn't delete either of them, but the 1pt trick did what I needed.
thanks

And now matter how you format the paragraph marks to hide them from view,
you can use a paragraph style to apply the formatting; that makes the task a
little easier.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You can also format them as Hidden, which in some ways is preferable.
Although they will show up when you show nonprinting characters (including
Hidden text), and this will affect the page layout, it's easy to "lose"
paragraphs formatted as 1 point, especially if you forget you did it or
someone else (who doesn't know you did it) has to deal with the document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"shank" wrote in message
...

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
shank wrote:
WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and
below the table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a
blank page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

It should be possible to delete the one above the table. However, there
is no way to remove the one below the table (as designed).

Select each one and format it to a font size of 1 point. It won't be
gone, but it will be as small as possible.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.
=============================
I couldn't delete either of them, but the 1pt trick did what I needed.
thanks

How do I format a ^p as hidden?
I searched help and all I get is adding or removing the formatting markups.
thanks

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You can also format them as Hidden, which in some ways is preferable.
Although they will show up when you show nonprinting characters (including
Hidden text), and this will affect the page layout, it's easy to "lose"
paragraphs formatted as 1 point, especially if you forget you did it or
someone else (who doesn't know you did it) has to deal with the document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"shank" wrote in message
...

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
shank wrote:
WORD just drives me crazy somedays.

I have a table below the header. I cannot delete the ^p on top and
below the table.

The top one is forcing the table down and the bottom is giving me a
blank page 2.

How do I get rid of them? Don't know what to try other than delete or
backspace keys.

thanks

It should be possible to delete the one above the table. However, there
is no way to remove the one below the table (as designed).

Select each one and format it to a font size of 1 point. It won't be
gone, but it will be as small as possible.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.
=============================
I couldn't delete either of them, but the 1pt trick did what I needed.
thanks

"shank" wrote:
How do I format a ^p as hidden?
I searched help and all I get is adding or removing the formatting
markups.


Select the paragraph mark, then in the menu, "Format Font", check
"Hidden".

Once you learn to love hidden text and its uses, you'll likely use the
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H.

Regards,
Klaus

Note, however, that sometimes Ctrl+Shift+H seems not to work for paragraph
marks, even when they are displayed and explicitly selected and formatted
using that shortcut.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
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"shank" wrote:
How do I format a ^p as hidden?
I searched help and all I get is adding or removing the formatting
markups.


Select the paragraph mark, then in the menu, "Format Font", check
"Hidden".

Once you learn to love hidden text and its uses, you'll likely use the
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H.

Regards,
Klaus

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Note, however, that sometimes Ctrl+Shift+H seems not to work for paragraph
marks, even when they are displayed and explicitly selected and formatted
using that shortcut.

Haven't run into that bug yet, but in Word2007 it wouldn't surprise me much,
unfortunately.

Klaus

I was referring to previous versions--haven't done enough in Word 2007 to
talk about it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Note, however, that sometimes Ctrl+Shift+H seems not to work for
paragraph marks, even when they are displayed and explicitly selected and
formatted using that shortcut.

Haven't run into that bug yet, but in Word2007 it wouldn't surprise me
much, unfortunately.

Klaus