Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated October 4, 2025)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Need a quick way to delete the current page in your document? Here's a macro that will do the trick:
Sub Delete_Page() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Page").Range.Delete End Sub
The macro uses a special system-defined bookmark to refer to the current page. Assign the macro to a shortcut key and you have a way to easily delete the current page—the one in which the insertion point is located. The macro bases its determination of a "page" on the current pagination of the document, which is affected by the printer driver you are using and other formatting characteristics of the document.
You should keep in mind that Word is dynamic in how it flows information in a document. Thus, let's say that you run this macro while the insertion point is located in page 5. It dutifully selects the contents of page 5 and deletes those contents, but Word then reflows the document so that everything after the old page 5 is moved up to occupy the void created—page 6 becomes page 5, page 7 becomes page 6, etc.
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