Deleting and inserting pages in Acrobat

After you’ve created an Adobe® PDF file, what happens if you decide that you’d like to remove a page, or even add or more new pages? Don’t worry! There’s no need to start from scratch. Adobe Acrobat® 8 makes it easy to add or remove pages. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how.

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software:

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

• Try
• Buy (Professional)
• Buy (Standard)

Prerequisite knowledge:

None

Deleting pages

Sometimes when you combine content from several documents, you have pages of information you don’t need. Fortunately, you can easily delete a single page or a group of pages by following these steps.

1. Open your document and click the Pages icon at the left of the screen to display the Pages panel. The pages are shown in small images, called thumbnails. The first page is displayed in the Document pane. In the Pages panel, you can see that the third thumbnail is highlighted and that a red box surrounds some of the page contents (Figure 1). This means that page 3 is showing in the Document pane, and the visible portion of the page is outlined with the red box.

    

   

   Figure 1: Selected page content is shown in the Document pane.

2. Click the thumbnail for the page you want to remove in the Pages panel.
3. From the Options menu in the Pages panel select Delete Pages, or choose Document > Delete Pages. The selected page or pages are listed as the default deletion.
4. Use the default or click the From option and enter the range of page numbers you want to delete, and then click OK. Click OK again in the confirmation dialog, and the pages are removed.

Power deleting

Instead of using commands to delete multiple pages, use the thumbnails and keyboard keys. Click the thumbnail of the page you want to delete, hold down the Shift key and click additional pages to select them, and then press Delete on the keyboard. The confirmation dialog opens asking if you really want to delete the pages. Click OK and the pages are gone.

Inserting pages

Inserting pages is almost as simple as deleting them.

1. In the Pages panel, click the thumbnail before the location where you want to insert additional pages and choose Options > Insert Pages, or choose Document > Insert Pages from the main menu. The Select File To Insert dialog opens.
2. Locate the file you want to use and click Select. The dialog closes, and the Insert Pages dialog opens (Figure 2).

    

   

   Figure 2: Use the Insert Page dialog to specify the pages for insertion into the open document.

3. Specify the location where you want to add the document. The default is After, with the Page radio button automatically selected—2 is shown in the text box for Figure 2.
4. Click OK to close the Insert Pages dialog and add the page to your document.

Insert pages in front

Sometimes you need to insert a new page before an existing page in your document. For example, you may need to add a cover page to a catalog or marketing brochure. In the Insert Pages dialog, simply click the Location pop-up menu and choose Before. Click OK and Acrobat adds the page to your document precisely where you want it.

Where to go from here

For more information about working with Acrobat, check out these great resources:

• Acrobat Design Center
• Adobe Video Workshop

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