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debbiegander
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March 1, 2011
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Acrobat X Delete pages

  • March 1, 2011
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When i try to delete pages, i select the icon then enter from to page numbers, i always have to repeat this twice before the actual pages delete?

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    Jacob Fielding
    Participant
    March 30, 2011

    After some troubleshooting I found that not being able to delete pages at all is a function of the Acrobat Windows Explorer Preview. This allows you to preview the pdf in more detail from explorer but if you select and open a file through explorer with this active, windows explorer will already have a lock on the file. Hence, you cannot delete unless you single click some other file to take the preview off the one you are using. Alternatively you can just disable this preview pane for explorer and the issue will be solved.

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    Dave Scott
    Participant
    March 30, 2011

    Thank you.  You are correct that when I open the file directly in Acrobat X, I am able to delete pages.

    How do I "just disable this preview pane for explorer"?

    Dave Scott

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    Jacob Fielding
    Participant
    March 31, 2011

    Should just be an white a blue square icon on the top right of the explorer window. This link shows it for windows 7. On something like xp my guess is its under view or something, but I'm not sure.

    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61510-preview-pane-turn-off.html

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    Dave Scott
    Participant
    March 30, 2011

    Unable to delete pages as they are always "in use" even though I am on

    another page and the ones I want to delete are not visible except as thumbnails.

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    Joseph_Cheong
    Participant
    March 22, 2011

    I Just got may Adobe too and am sad to say that I have the same problem of not being able to delete pages.  It seems that the delete button is disabled.  How can I go about enabling the button.

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    Satira17
    Participating Frequently
    March 9, 2011

    I'm having the same issue, but recently I also started receiving the error "One or more pages are in use and could not be deleted."  Has anyone found an actual solution to this?  (Going through the sequence twice is a workaround, not a fix.)  I'm using Acrobat X Pro.

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    Satira17
    Participating Frequently
    March 9, 2011

    FYI:  Adobe's response:

    Hello      ,

    Several people have reported this problem and a bug has been logged.  According to most people reporting this issue you can go through the process a second time and it will successfully delete the pages.  We are sorry for this interruption of your workflow and we hope to address this in the next quarterly update of Acrobat.

    Regards,

    Adobe Systems Inc.

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    whatdoIhavetodo
    Participant
    March 21, 2011

    Can not delete pages get error msg "one or more pages in use can not delete"  any other way to delete?  Can not edit documents - when will quarterly update come out?  Doing it twice does not help.  running Win 7

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    Bob_Andersen
    Participant
    March 3, 2011

    I have experienced the same issue.  The next problem is when the document is closed and re-opened it loses all the fonts and is no longer viewable.  I am using acrobat x with windows 7.  I have repeated the same modification with the same base file on a XP pro machine with no issue.  Please help.

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    March 1, 2011

    I don't have this behavior. Could we have more information. OS? Version of Acrobat 10? Do you have any software that can be interfering with Acrobat's operation? Any Macro programs? What Virus/Malware protection? Which firewall?

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    Jacob Fielding
    Participant
    March 1, 2011

    Also having this issue. Functions such as delete and insert go through the dialogs as they should but then dont actual perform the action the first time. So I can click delete, specify the page number(s) click ok, and say yes to any confirmations and then nothing happens. Do the exact same thing again, and it deletes. 2nd try every time.

    Acrobat X Std. 10.0.1

    Windows 7 Home Premium

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    sdhoyer
    Participant
    March 2, 2011

    Thanks for this specific question and description of what you did that works. This helped me be able to delete

    a page, too. I have WindowsXP, V2002, SP3; Acrobat X Pro (10.0.1) And I haven't had this problem before.

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