# Removing all page breaks from a document in Word 2010

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-all-page-breaks-from-a-document-in-word-2010/624418 "2012-06-07T19:37:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-all-page-breaks-from-a-document-in-word-2010/624418/1 "2012-06-07T19:37:12Z")

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Any way for me to remove all page breaks from a document, without manually cycling through and deleting each one individually?

I can’t find a “find/replace” code for page breaks…

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**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-all-page-breaks-from-a-document-in-word-2010/624418/2 "2012-06-07T20:12:14Z")

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In 2007/2010:

Home tab  
Replace - then click the Replace tab  
Special  
Choose manual page break (^m)

replace with nothing (or whatever you want)

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**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-all-page-breaks-from-a-document-in-word-2010/624418/3 "2012-06-08T09:52:29Z")

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Another (perhaps overly long winded) way is to highlight all the text and copy it to a notepad text file. This has the effect of stripping all the formatting from a document. You can then open it back into a new Word document and lay it out how you wish.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-all-page-breaks-from-a-document-in-word-2010/624418/4 "2012-06-08T17:56:25Z")

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> [@missbunny](#):
>
> In 2007/2010:
> 
> Home tab  
> Replace - then click the Replace tab  
> Special  
> Choose manual page break (^m)
> 
> replace with nothing (or whatever you want)

… to make it really quick and easy… \<ctrl\> - h opens the find and replace menu.