Delete blank page after table

[Atheist]

See that other page?.....
I can not get rid of it.
There are no characters on it or anything else, for that matter.

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[FJCC]

Can you upload the actual document?

[FJCC]

If you select the menu View -> Nonprinting Characters, do you see an empty paragraph on the second page?

[Hagar Delest]

Set the blank paragraph below the table to font size 2 (the minimum).
Or set the font properties of that blank paragraph to hidden to hide it completely.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the 🖉 button if your issue has been fixed.

[RoryOF]

To expand on what Hagar has said: in OpenOffice, a Table is _always_ followed by an empty paragraph; this one can see by turning on /View /Non printing characters. One cannot remove that empty paragraph, but one can select it and reduce it to 2 pts, which is the minimum. One may be able to reduce the content on the first page by sufficient to make room for that blank paragraph or by adjusting top or bottom margins by a miniscule amount, in which case your blank page ought vanish.

[JeJe]

You can remove the paragraph after the last table with this macro:

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Sub RemoveLastParagraph
txt = thiscomponent.text
tc =txt.createtextcursorbyrange(txt.end)
tc.createenumeration.nextelement.dispose
End Sub

[MrProgrammer]

Sub RemoveLastParagraph
txt = thiscomponent.text
tc =txt.createtextcursorbyrange(txt.end)
tc.createenumeration.nextelement.dispose
End Sub

2016 topic [Solved] Undeletable page when filling whole page with table suggests that the page which the macro deletes will return if the document is saved and reopened. A test with OpenOffice 4.1.7 confirms that behavior. OpenOffice adds a paragraph to hold the table when the document is opened, so the unwanted page will return. Either use Format → Character → Font → Size → 2 or Format → Character → Font Effects → Hidden. If the unwanted page is only a problem when printing, just tell your printer driver not to print it.

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit ☐ button and add [Solved] to the start of the Subject field. Select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

[JeJe]

You're right, the paragraph is reinserted on reopening. A workaround would be run the macro on document load but that's getting complicated.

Another method would be put the contents of the page into a text frame, and turn the frame autosize off. You can size the frame to the bottom edge of the table so the paragraph after it isn't visible.

But format/character/hidden is the best/simplest IMO.

[JeJe]

A variation of the hidden text would be to insert menu/fields/Other/Functions tab/Hidden paragraph with a condition that isn't met. The paragraph can be toggled with view menu/hidden paragraphs.