How can I delete a cover page so the background pic goes?

[TessaD]

I am using Word 2007 and I inserted a cover page from the templates which I
now do not want. When I click <insert> <cover page>, there is an option to
delete cover page, but it is greyed out. no matter where I put my cursor,
this does not become selectable.
I must get rid of the current cover page, so that I can put a cover page
with our company logo on it before I can submit the report. Hope you can
help!
Thanks
Tessa

 

[Stefan Blom]

To get rid of the cover page, you could just select the contents on the page
and press Delete.

 

[TessaD]

Thanks Stefan, but I've already tried this and it doesn't work - all this
does is move the text on the next page up to the page that has the background
image on it. it's the background image that is the problem - I need our
company logo, not a MS Word template "pretty picture". I simply want to
delete the page entirely, not move text up onto the page.
TIA

 

[Stefan Blom]

Activate the header/footer view, for example by double-clicking the header
paragraph. Then you should be able to select and delete the picture.

 

[CyberTaz]

A couple of thoughts;

You could select & delete the image or right-click it & replace it with your
logo if you do want to retain the Cover Page [they're designed to be
customized rather than accepting "as is"], or

Select everything beyond the Cover Page then Copy/Paste to a new document.

As to why the command is dimmed I haven't a clue, but is there any
Protection applied in the document? Or anything further on that "connects"
back to content on the Cover Page [fields, bookmarks...]? I've tried several
things & can't reproduce the disabling of the Remove... command.

BTW - It may depend on which Cover Page it is, but Stefan's suggestion does
work here - you just have to delete *everything* on the Cover Page including
the graphic elements. There may also be a few lingering empty paragraphs
which have to be deleted as well. Could the included graphic & other
remaining content of that particular Cover Page actually be in the
Header/Footer rather than in the text layer?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac