Moving pages within a document

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Moving pages within a document

I have a 150-page document in Pages. It's a Memory Book. Those 150 pages contain about 100 questions that my wife or I answered. Each page contains the question, the answer to that question, and maybe a picture. I used different fonts and paragraph styles depending on which one of us answered the question.

Now that we are done writing, I want to reorder the pages. Once I've got it in the order I want, I will send this to a printing company in PDF form, and they will print a book.

I'm wondering if anyone has had an opportunity to do something like this before because I need some help with suggestions on getting it done.

I can save the document as a PDF and move the thumbnails around, but that is very tedious on my MB Air and the small screen. I can cut and paste the pages I want to move in Pages, but that doesn't seem very efficient. I can cut and paste the pages and put them into a new document, which seems quicker to me, but I'm afraid of losing the formatting I've spent so much time on.

These are the three ways I know I can do this, but maybe there is another, more efficient, way to accomplish what I'm trying to do.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Chip

Posted on Nov 26, 2023 9:31 AM

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VikingOSX

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Nov 26, 2023 10:26 AM in response to RCMjr

Apple talks about two different Pages document styles:

Intro to word-processing and page layout documents in Pages on Mac - Apple Support

The only simple means of rearranging thumbnails in Pages is if you created a page layout style document, and not the default word processing document (where text automatically flows to the next page).

The latter document style is organized by sections with one or multiple pages associated with each section. Though you can rearrange sections by thumbnail, the individual pages in a section cannot be rearranged without effort.

That effort entails inserting a new page at the desired move destination, copy/pasting the content on the page to be moved into the new page, and then selecting all content on the donor page and deleting it. A subsequent backspace on the donor page will also remove the lingering page break on it.

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