How to Solve Endnotes Error Message?

External Since: Sep 02, 2008 Posts: 1

At the end of my document there are two blank pages that I cannot
delete. When I try to delete them, the following message appears: "This
is not a valid action for endnotes." Now I realize that Word thinks that
my endnotes don't end until the bottom of the second blank page.

When I activate the end of line line symbol (sorry, I don't know the
name of this symbol), the symbol appears throughout the two blank
pages.

Now I'm trying to figure out why I can't backspace or delete these
symbols from the two blank pages at the end of the document. Again,
when I try to do so, the following error message prevents their
deletion: "This is not a valid action for endnotes."

I think what I need to do at this point is declare to Word exactly
where the Endnotes section ends. To do this, it seems like the
following pathway would be helpful: insert / break / section break
(next page).

The problem here is that all options within the "break" drop-down menu
are greyed out and not selectable. I have placed the mouse cursor at
the end of the Endnotes section to indicate where the section break
should take place.

So at this point I'm stumped.
I can't seem to create a section break at the end of the Endnotes
section, and thus, delete two blank pages that appear at the end of the
document.

Thanks for any tips.

My version of Microsoft Word: 2004 for Mac

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schwine

External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 18972

Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to view the endnote pane. Go
to the end of the actual notes and instead of trying to delete the empty
paragraphs, try backspacing from the first one up to the last paragraph of
text. If this is not allowed, try pressing Delete at the end of the last
text footnote. There will usually be SOME way to get rid of empty paragraphs
in the endnotes pane--unless Word thinks they're actually endnotes, in which
case you can remove them only by deleting the endnote reference mark in the
document itself.

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

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>
> At the end of my document there are two blank pages that I cannot
> delete. When I try to delete them, the following message appears: "This
> is not a valid action for endnotes." Now I realize that Word thinks that
> my endnotes don't end until the bottom of the second blank page.
>
> When I activate the end of line line symbol (sorry, I don't know the
> name of this symbol), the symbol appears throughout the two blank
> pages.
>
> Now I'm trying to figure out why I can't backspace or delete these
> symbols from the two blank pages at the end of the document. Again,
> when I try to do so, the following error message prevents their
> deletion: "This is not a valid action for endnotes."
>
> I think what I need to do at this point is declare to Word exactly
> where the Endnotes section ends. To do this, it seems like the
> following pathway would be helpful: insert / break / section break
> (next page).
>
> The problem here is that all options within the "break" drop-down menu
> are greyed out and not selectable. I have placed the mouse cursor at
> the end of the Endnotes section to indicate where the section break
> should take place.
>
> So at this point I'm stumped.
> I can't seem to create a section break at the end of the Endnotes
> section, and thus, delete two blank pages that appear at the end of the
> document.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> My version of Microsoft Word: 2004 for Mac
>
>
>
>
> --
> schwine