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jeffman111
jeffman111
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February 4, 2017
Question

Can't reorder pages

  • February 4, 2017
  • 4 replies
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Can't reorder pages. Normally you can just drag a page to the new locatiion to change order, but I can't. anyone else had this problem? I am using Acrobat DC Pro with Windows 10Pro

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Dan37424215kou5
Participant
May 15, 2024

This software is such crap. I'm sorry- but the UI is counterintuitive and buggy. Finally after an hour of trying to move pages around I had to quit the app, and KILL all the processes, and stop the services that it runs in the background to try to make sure it is always running and making sure to bother me- I killed them all and restarted and now I can reorder pages. 

The irony is that this is the one bit of software I really try to pay for because I use it all the time and it has been crap for years. 

 

I'm here in 2024 and running into a problem from 2017 and the answer was: Kill the running processes and restart it. What a hate joke. 

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    Dan37424215kou5
    Participant
    May 15, 2024

    Literally over an hour of chasing this. What the actual kcuF. 

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    Brazzell MA
    Known Participant
    May 28, 2019

    Zooming has no bearing on my ability to rearrange pages. When I hover over a thumbnail, I get the black pointer. When I click the blue selection box gets a darker blue board. When I drag, nothing happens. It highlights pages I am going over, but no blue line appears suggesting I can drop a page. Dragging doesn't seem to be working at all. There is nothing to indicated that I am successfully dragging a page.

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      May 28, 2019

      What application (including exact version number) are you using?
      Is the file otherwise editable? Can you delete pages from it, for example?

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      Brazzell MA
      Known Participant
      May 29, 2019

      Works just fine for me. It might be helpful if you could upload a video showing how you're trying to do it.

      Also, please don't reply by email as it includes your full contact details, and the moderators have to remove them from your emails.


      I'm starting to think mine is a Windows problem. It started with Adobe yesterday, but now I can't drag files in Windows Explorer either. I'm going to track this as a Windows problem for a while before looking harder at Acrobat.

      Update: It was an incomplete Windows update. Reboot fixed it. Had nothing to do with Adobe.

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      ebvanness
      Participant
      August 26, 2017

      Found answer in another forum that worked for me: "

      reply from try67in thread https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1348512

      Zoom out, so the entire page is visible, then drag&drop works"

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      George_Johnson
      Inspiring
      February 5, 2017

      Does the document have any security restrictions?

      jeffman111
      jeffman111Author
      Participant
      February 5, 2017

      No. I created the document from scanning pages. When I was unsuccessful at reordering the pages, I emailed to my wife who had no problem. I am not using Reader. It is Acrobat DC Pro with my CC subscription. It's funny that my wife was able to do it on her little laptop. I'm the one with the hardcore system with all the bells and whistles to do 3D and motion graphics. I uninstalled the applicaton, reinstalled it, restarted my system, tried other PDF documents, and all had the same result. Very frustrating!

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      February 5, 2017

      What exactly happens when you try to move the pages around? What are the results?

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