Acrobat: pages selected by mouse for extraction deselect on their own

[Leonard239737489dvy]

have had this issue for years. old interface, new one. different win 11 pcs and mice.

I hold ctrl key and select say 15 mostly non consecutive pages. before i get half way thru selecting, the previous selections deselect on their own.

have tried going backwards from last desired page to first.

repaired Acrobat.

tried selecting a large consecutive range and then deselecting. 

other problem, is that I often cant' deselect by escape key or clicking in a blank area. have to close doc.

two tech calls. no solution.

in the past I'd print to paper, separate pages, scan into new docs.

suppose, i could extract using a bunch of specified ranges without mouse.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Leonard239737489dvy,

Thank you for reaching out.

Please let us know if you are trying to separate the pages/ extract from the PDF. If so, please use the Organize pages option under the Edit tool in Acrobat. Please refer to the steps provided in the following help: https://adobe.ly/4cLQJ8D.

For more information, refer to the following help document: https://adobe.ly/4cLzmFd. 

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[try67]

I developed some (paid-for) tools that you might find useful for this task.

This one allows you to select pages by ticking a check-box it adds to them, then you can extract or print them to a new file with a single click, and remove those check-boxes:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-print-or-extract-selected-pages

The state of the check-boxes doesn't change by itself and you can save the file, close it, and then re-open and they would still be selected (or not) from your previous session, for example. Much more reliable than Adobe's built-in method of selecting pages.

Another option is this (also paid-for) tool, where you just enter the page numbers (you can even use ranges) of the pages to extract, and it does it for you immediately:

http://try67.blogspot.com/2011/04/acrobat-extract-non-sequential-pages.html

Note the pages don't have to be sequential.