Suppose you have a document of 50 pages and you want to delete pages 10 to 15. You may wonder if there is a way to delete that range with a single action.
Not with a single action, no. The reason is because Word technically knows nothing about pages. Page designations are very fluid, depending on all sorts of variables such as the amount of text in a document, what formatting is applied, and which printer driver is being used.
That being said, there is a relatively easy way to delete pages 10 to 15. Follow these steps:
Even though this process is noted here as 8 steps, it really is quite quick to perform. I was able to perform them in less than 5 seconds, which is a pretty fast way to get rid of a group of pages.
Another way to approach the task is to use the Zoom control to set a very small zoom factor. If you set something like 10% or 20%, you should see a number of pages on the screen at the same time. You can then use the mouse to easily select the pages you want to delete and then delete them.
If you haven't caught on to the idea yet, in Word you need to select text (not pages) and then delete the text. Thus, another way to quickly select the text that comprises pages 10 through 15 is to jump to the beginning of page 10 and make sure the insertion point is there. Then, click on the "thumb button" on the vertical scroll bar at the right of the window and drag it until you see that it is on page 15. As you hold the Shift key, click at the point on the page where you want your text selection to end. You can then delete the selection.
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2021-03-01 10:03:02
Andrew
Len, the point of this tip is to show how to reference a document by page numbers, which is usually very difficult to do.
Your way, my way, and Allen's way (and every other way) are basically the same: 1. Select the text you want to delete, and 2. Delete it. Your steps 1-3 and Allen's steps 1-7 all boil down to my step 1. And there are only about a hundred other ways to select text. Your way could seriously break down if you had to, say, delete 150 pages of a 300 page document--you'd be scrolling for hours.
2021-02-26 11:32:40
David
Len, I don't know if we've ever met, but boy are you spot on! Simple and effective, using method we already know: shift to select text, scrolling with a mouse wheel, and left-clicking. Easy-peasy mac-and-cheesy!!
2021-02-26 10:29:35
Len M.
This is a good solution. However, remembering 8 steps can be difficult for a task if not often used. In addition, when I have the need to delete multiple pages in a document, the start and stop points are not usually conveniently located at the top and bottom of the 1st and last page.
My solution is to
1) place my cursor at the starting point of the content to be deleted,
2) scroll to the end of the content to be deleted,
3) hold the shift-key down and left-click the mouse button,
4) press delete.
2018-05-02 04:35:00
selim melen
Too much explanation in order to just delete some pages from a world document.
There should be easier ways.
2017-02-23 20:15:21
Cary
this solution does not work if I want to delete the last page in a doc
2016-01-14 07:23:10
Stephen Gray
Thanks ! This really helped.
Regards
Stephen Gray
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