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atlaeeceu
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December 2, 2013
Answered

Unable to rearrange pages in Acrobat XI

  • December 2, 2013
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On iMac 3.1 Ghz Intel Core i5 OS 10.7.5, using recently installed Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.04 In an Acrobat XI pdf that has had pages inserted from other Acrobat XI pdf documents, in the thumbnail view, either clicking on or command clicking on page thumbnails does not select the page most of the time.  Sometimes it does for some pages but those are not the ones I wanted to re-order  Tried to close Acrobat to restart hoping to fix the problem that way.  No.  After importing the pages and trying to re-order them, then trying to save and close, Acrobat had an error that wouldn't let me save the document so I lost the work. Started new pdf, tried again to re-arrange the pages using the thumbnails, still unable to select the page thumbnails at all to move them.

Correct answer e92vancouver

You need to zoom out so that the entire page is visible in the main window.

Then you'll be able to drag&drop the page in the Pages panel.


Thanks. This did the trick. You da man!

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ThewondersofAdobe
Known Participant
December 13, 2018

Dear Geniuses of Adobe if you're paying attention:

This issue still is not solved, and the solutions proposed above do not work for me.

Please continue to ignore this thread, make no bug fixes or enhancements to your product, and generally be the worst company in the entire marketplace at handling a document type of your own creation.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 13, 2018

    The question in this thread was answered. If you have a similar situation you can post the details, but with that attitude I wouldn't expect many replies. Also, you should be aware that most of the people replying here are not Adobe employees. If you want an official reply contact Adobe's Customer Care department.

    And no, there will be no more fixes for Acrobat XI, if that's what you're using, as it's no longer supported.

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      ThewondersofAdobe
      Known Participant
      December 13, 2018

      OK, fair, that you called me out for my attitude.  Apologies.

      Unfortunately, the solutions proposed do not work for me, and the bug persists -- although it manifests intermittently, and I can't discern a pattern, nor, therefore, a work around (not that there isn't one).

      It appears Adobe let this bug lapse until they simply discontinued support for this version of Acrobat, so maybe the only "solution" is to give Adobe more money for a newer version of Acrobat.

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      rgianaca
      Participant
      March 1, 2014

      I have the same issue, but I am using acrobat XI on a PC using windows 8.1

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      rgianaca
      Participant
      March 1, 2014

      Ok...  I am new to Acrobat XI and Acrobat in general.  I was using Acrobat XI Reader instead of Acrobat Pro.  I have both, but the reader will only let you read the document and not move the pages.  How I (finally) understood the difference...  in Reader it does not have a page menu under tools.  All the tutorials, tips and tricks and help referred to using pages under the Tools menu.  When you open Acrobat Pro or Standard, Pages is under the Tool menu.

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      Bill12
      Inspiring
      March 2, 2014

      Generally you just open the Pages panel (you can resize it to get a lot more pages on the panel). Then, you select a page with the mouse and drag it to where you want. That works a lot better when you have 4 or 5 pages wide and not just 1 page wide display.

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