How to reorder, delete and duplicate PDF pages

The Organize Pages dialog shows every page of your PDF as a thumbnail. Drag pages into a new order, delete the ones you do not need, or duplicate a page, and then apply the changes to the file.

Step by step

1.Open Organize Pages

Open the PDF, then open the Pages menu in the toolbar and choose Organize Pages. You can also find it with the command palette (Ctrl+K).

The Pages menu open, with the Organize Pages item outlined in red.

2.Look at the pages

The dialog opens on the Pages tab. Each page is a thumbnail, numbered in the order it will have in the file. The count at the bottom shows how many pages there are.

The Organize Pages dialog with three thumbnails of the sample report, numbered 1, 2 and 3.

3.Select pages

Click a thumbnail to select it, and click it again to clear it. To select a run of pages, click the first one, then hold Shift and click the last one. The count above the thumbnails shows how many pages are selected. The square at the top left selects every page, or clears the selection when some are selected.

The first two thumbnails selected, with the count 2 selected outlined in red.

4.Delete, rotate, duplicate or add a blank page

The buttons above the thumbnails act on the selected pages. Delete selected pages removes them (the Delete key does the same). Rotate selected pages 90 degrees turns them. The Duplicate selected pages button puts a copy of each one after it. Insert blank page adds an empty page after the last selected page. Undo and Redo step back and forward through your changes.

Two pages selected, with the Duplicate selected pages button outlined in red.

5.Drag pages into a new order

Press on a thumbnail and drag it to the place you want, then let go. The other pages move to make room. The pages keep their content, and Unsaved changes appears at the top of the dialog until you apply the changes.

The third page moved to the front, so Next steps is now page 1, and the Unsaved changes label is shown.

6.Apply the changes

Click Apply to change the PDF in the editor. Cancel closes the dialog without changing the file. If you close the dialog with unsaved changes, Papr asks you to confirm before it discards them.

The footer of the Organize Pages dialog with the Apply button outlined in red, beside Cancel.

The other tabs

Merge Files adds the pages of other PDFs to this one, in the order you choose. See the merge guide.
Page Marks adds numbers, headers, footers and watermarks to pages. See the Bates numbering and watermark guides.

Try it on your own file

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