Deleting whitespace in a cleared Doc page.

[Matteo Hee]

I'm trying to write a simple script to delete the first page from a Google doc (well, many, many Google docs, but that part I've got figured out already). I haven't had any luck with the .removeFromParent or other commands, but I seem to be able to delete the text using the paragraph.clear() command. 

However, the cleared paragraphs leave a page of whitespace (and bullet points) that I would like to get rid of. How can I delete the page completely so the document starts from Page 2?

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function deleteFirstPage(target) {

  

  

var deletePages = 1;

var paragraph = DocumentApp.openById(target)

  .getBody()

  .getParagraphs();

  

var counter = 0;

for (var i = 0; i < paragraph.length; i++) {

  for (var j = 0; j < paragraph[i].getNumChildren(); j++){

    if (

      paragraph[i].getChild(j).getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.PAGE_BREAK

    )

      counter++;

   

  }

  

  //paragraph[i].editAsText().setText('');

  paragraph[i].clear();

 

  if (counter == deletePages) break;

} 

}

[Martin Molloy]

try 

paragraph[i].removeFromParent();

instead

Martin Molloy

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