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Anonymous

Question

DELETE PAGES WITHOUT DELETING WHOLE PDF FILE

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
July 19, 2010
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I need help figuring out how to delete certain pages of a file without deleting the whole file and without having to re-scan 50 pages?

Eric Price

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ddb_mcse

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I feel everyone's pain and here is what I did to get it to work in Adobe X Pro.

Right click on the Quick Tools Area as seen in Figure #1 and select Quick Tools:

Figure #1

Select the Pages option as seen in Figure #2 and select the add triangle to add it the the Quick Tools to Show: window as seen in Figure #3.

Figure #2

Figure #3

Click on "OK" and now the toolbar is added to the application as seen in Figure #4.

Now you should be ready to rock-n-roll. I hope this helps.

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Legend

Thanks for sharing those detailed instructions. I should point out that nobody needs to do that. To use the pages tools, they can simply click TOOLS to open up the tools panel, and look in Pages under there. But what you've done is a great time saved for adding to the toolbar instead for the things used often.

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leenyxa

Participant

I don't think you can delete pages, but I found a workaround. Most computers now come with an option to Print to PDF, which lets you choose page ranges. So choose print, select PDF and the page range(s) you want to keep, and create a new PDF without your unwanted pages.

~graffiti

Legend

Are you sure about "most computers"?

I've got a brand spanking new laptop at home that doesn't have this option. Are you sure you don't have some application installed that added that?

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sf_creatives

Participant

Buy a Mac. Use the free pre-installed "Preview" app, select the page(s) and press delete, then save.

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manilo82

Participant

Go to View > Navigation Panels > Pages

Drag the box that appears on to the Navigation Panel (where the bookmark icon is) until it snaps underneath the icons. You can delete pages from there.

~graffiti

Legend

You've brought up a thread that is over a year old but the answer is still valid. You cannot delete pages with Adobe Reader (which is what is being discussed here).

And yeah, it might be cheaper to just buy Acrobat than to buy a "Mac" so you can use the "Preview" app.

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Dcthorn63

Participant

I had this same problem with needing to delete one page in a PDF file in Adobe Reader. I just went back to the program (Canon MP Navigator) I used to scan the pages and re-saved the file without that page (only put a checkmark on the pages I wanted). Hope this helps.

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dougheydon

Participant

After I 'upgraded' to version 10 I discovered that the menu option "Document" was missing, so reverted to version 9.4. This allows you to delete selected pages by using the menu choice "Document/Delete pages", and you are given a dialog box where you can specify the pages to be deleted. I use this all the time to delete the unneeded parts of documents I scan into Evernote. I have repeatedly tried to find out why Adobe removed this feature from version 10, but to no avail - hence the reinstallation of 9.4.

If anyone else knows why this very useful feature was deleted, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

If anyone else knows why this very useful feature was deleted, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

This feature is available in Acrobat X. Look under Tools > Pages > ...

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MeganPE

Participant

I have Adobe X, and there is no "Pages" option at all. I can't figure out how to delete selected pages, and it is very frustrating. Can anyone tell me how to revert back to the old Adobe so I can do this? It is essential to my job.Thanks!