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Deleting Blank Pages in LibreOffice and OpenOffice
May 11th, 2011
The word processors of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice free open-source office suites have an annoying habit of inserting blank pages in documents. These insidious pages won’t show until you go to print the document.
Libre- and OpenOffice do this because of their insistence upon interpreting every document as a “book”, with left and right pages. If you fiddle with the page numbering or page breaks, you may find yourself with blank pages inserted to “help” you keep your “book”‘s odd/even pages properly lined up.
Mostly what I print from word processors are contracts, memos, faxes, and letters, so the whole book format doesn’t matter to me and the blank pages are basically just a royal pain. After finagling around a bit trying to find out how to remove these blank pages based on where and how I add breaks and page numbering, I discovered the easy solution.
When you go to print your OpenOffice or LibreOffice document, go to the Open-/LibreOffice Writer tab and un-check the box to “print automatically inserted blank pages”. Done. You’ll see the page numbers below the preview on the left decrease accordingly.
This was VERY helpful, THANKS!
I have another quiry: how do you simply DELETE a page or doc?? I keep getting a 2nd pg. when trying to make charts for school etc. & it keeps giving me a 2nd page, I can avoid the printing, but how can I just delete the page?? And I replaced a doc with an updated version, but I can’t left click delete, or send to trash etc. there seems to be no way to remove the doc at all?
Forgive my ignorance, I’m new to Ubuntu : )
THANKS!
I’m glad I could help you out! To be honest, I don’t know the answer to your other questions, though. :( I’ve never had either issue (and I’m working on a Windows machine). Best of luck!
This is great to know. This is one of the most annoying issues I have with LibreOffice. I remember Word used to do the same thing back in the day.
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Thanks for the info, it’s helpful, but the title is misleading. Something on the lines of ”Preventing LibreOffice and the likes from printing blank pages” would have been more accurate, and more in line with the google query that landed me here (http://www.google.ro/search?q=libreoffice+delete+blank+page).
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