In this article I will explain how you can use VBA for Word to delete a page. To be clear, there isn’t a “Page” collection where you could just call the delete or remove method of its members. The way to accomplish this is to manually select all the content in a page and delete it.

The function below receives as input a page number and deletes it:

Public Sub DeletePage(ByVal intPage As Integer)
Dim flag As Boolean
'the line number before moving to the left
Dim intLineBefore As Integer
'the line number after moving to the left
Dim intLineAfter As Integer
'the page number before moving to the left
Dim intPageNumberBefore As Integer
'the page number after moving to the left
Dim intPageNumberAfter As Integer
'the last page number
Dim intLastPage As Integer
'the last line numnber
Dim intLastLine As Integer

Selection.EndKey unit:=wdStory
intLastPage = Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
intLastLine = Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
'moves the cursor to the start of the document
Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory
'gets the currrent page number
If Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) _
<> intPage Then
    flag = True
    'keeps going until the page number is found
    While flag = True
        Selection.EndKey unit:=wdLine
        intPageNumberBefore = _
        Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
        intLineBefore = _
        Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
        Selection.MoveLeft unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        intPageNumberAfter = _
        Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
        intLineAfter = _
        Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
        Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        If intLineAfter = intLineBefore And _
        intPageNumberBefore = intPageNumberAfter Then
           Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        End If
        'checks if page number has been reached
        If Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) _
        = intPage Then
           flag = False
        End If
    Wend
End If
'move to the start of the page
Selection.HomeKey
flag = True
'keep selecting until the end of the page
While flag = True
    Selection.EndKey unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
    intPageNumberBefore = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
    intLineBefore = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
    Selection.MoveLeft unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, _
    Extend:=wdExtend
    intPageNumberAfter = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
    intLineAfter = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
    Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, _
    Extend:=wdExtend
    If intLineAfter = intLineBefore And intPageNumberBefore _
    = intPageNumberAfter Then
        Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, _
        Extend:=wdExtend
    End If
    'if the end of the page is reached delete
    If (Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) _
    <> intPage) Then
        Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
        Selection.MoveLeft unit:=wdCharacter, Extend:=wdExtend
        Selection.Delete
        flag = False
    ElseIf (Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) _
    = intLastPage) Then
        Selection.EndKey unit:=wdStory, Extend:=wdExtend
        Selection.Delete
        flag = False
    End If
Wend
End Sub


Assume we call the function with the parameter 2:

Sub main()
Call DeletePage(2)
End Sub


The second page will be selected by the function:

And deleted:

Code Description:

The first while loop, moves the cursor down line by line until the target page is reached:

While flag = True
    Selection.EndKey unit:=wdLine
    intPageNumberBefore = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
    intLineBefore = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
    Selection.MoveLeft unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    intPageNumberAfter = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
    intLineAfter = _
    Selection.Range.Information(wdFirstCharacterLineNumber)
    Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    If intLineAfter = intLineBefore And _
    intPageNumberBefore = intPageNumberAfter Then
        Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    End If
    'checks if page number has been reached
    If Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) _
    = intPage Then
        flag = False
    End If
Wend


You might be wondering why I used the Selection.EndKey instead of the Selection.MoveDown function? The object of the first while loop is to loop through all the lines of the document, page by page. If the user scrolls out and we use the Selection.MoveDown function the cursor will skip pages and move directly down:

Once the target page number has been found the second while loop selects all the lines in the page. Once the end of the page is reached it deletes the content.

•  Delete Page.docm

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