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Learn how to rotate, move, delete, extract, or renumber pages in a PDF.
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To manipulate pages in a PDF, ensure that you have permission to edit the PDF. Select Document properties from the hamburger menu , then select the Security tab in the dialog. Review your permissions for the document under Document Restrictions Summary.
You can rotate all or select pages in a document. Rotation is based on 90-degree increments. You can rotate pages using the rotate tools in the Page Thumbnails pane or the Rotate option.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize Pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed in the left pane.
Specify the page range on which you want to apply the rotation.
You can choose Even pages, Odd pages, Landscape pages, Portrait pages, or All pages. Alternatively, you can enter the page number you want to operate on.
After specifying the page range, for Direction, select either Rotate page left for counterclockwise 90° rotation or Rotate page right° for clockwise 90° rotation.
You can also apply the page rotation on a specific page by selecting the buttons in the right pane.
To temporarily change your view of the page, from the hamburger menu, choose View > Rotate view > Rotate view right or Rotate view left. The original page orientation is restored the next time you open the PDF.
Extraction is reusing selected pages of one PDF in a different PDF. Extracted pages include the content and the form fields, comments, and links of the original document.
You can leave the extracted pages in the original document or remove them during extraction.
Any bookmarks or article threadings associated with pages aren't extracted.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All Tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize Pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed on the left pane.
Specify the range of pages to extract.
You can choose Even pages, Odd pages, Landscape pages, Portrait pages, or All pages. Alternatively, enter the page number you want to extract.
Select Extract under Page options.
A new dialog appears with the commands specific to the Extract operation.
In the dialog, select one or more of the following before you select Extract:
The extracted pages are placed in a new document.
The creator of a PDF document can set the security to prevent the extraction of pages. To view the security settings for a document, choose Document properties from the hamburger menu and then select the Security tab in the dialog.
You can also select and extract discontinuous pages from the page thumbnails in the left navigation pane of Acrobat.
Steps:
You can split one or more PDFs into multiple smaller PDFs. When splitting a PDF, you can specify the split by the maximum number of pages, maximum file size, or top-level bookmarks.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed on the left pane.
In the left pane, select Split. A command dialog appears for the Split operation.
In the Split By list, select the criteria for dividing the document:
Number of pages
Specify the maximum number of pages for each document in the split.
File Size
Specify the maximum file size for each document in the split.
Top-level Bookmarks
If the document includes bookmarks, it creates one document for every top-level bookmark.
To specify a target folder for the split files and filename preferences, select Output Options. Specify the options as needed, and then select OK.
(Optional) To apply the same split to multiple documents, select Split Multiple Files. In the Split Documents dialog box, select Add Files, and choose Add Files, Add Folders, or Add Open Files. Select the files or folder, and then select OK.
Use page thumbnails in the navigation pane or the document area to copy or move pages within a document. You can also copy pages between documents using the page thumbnails.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed in the left pane. The page thumbnails are displayed in the Document area.
Select one or more page thumbnails.
You can also perform the above operations in the navigation pane by selecting the Page Thumbnails button.
Steps:
Open both PDFs and display them alongside each other.
To display the PDFs side by side, select Window from the hamburger menu (Windows®) or the Window menu (macOS). Then select Tile > Vertically.
Open the Page Thumbnails panels for both PDFs from the toolbar on the right. Alternatively, go to All tools > Organize Pages on both PDFs.
Select the Page Thumbnails button in the side panel on the right to open the Page Thumbnail panel.
Select the page that you want to cut or copy. To select multiple pages, press Ctrl and then select the pages. From the page thumbnail context menu, select Copy.
In the page thumbnails of the target PDF, select between the page thumbnails where you want to insert the page. A blue horizontal marker indicates the location where you want to paste. Right-select and choose Paste.
The page is copied into the document, and the pages are renumbered. You can paste the pages in another PDF as well. Alternatively, you can also drag the page thumbnail into the Page Thumbnails panel of the target PDF.
You can replace an entire PDF page with another PDF page. Only the text and images on the original page are replaced. Any interactive elements associated with the original page, such as links and bookmarks, aren't affected. Likewise, bookmarks and links that may have been previously associated with the replacement page don't carry over. Comments, however, are carried over and are combined with any existing comments in the document.
After you delete or replace pages, it’s a good idea to use the Reduce File Size command to rename and save the restructured document to the smallest possible file size.
You can't undo the Delete command.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed on the left pane. The page thumbnails are displayed in the Document area.
Specify the range of pages to delete.
You can choose Even pages, Odd pages, Landscape pages, Portrait pages, or All pages, or you can enter the page numbers you want to delete.
In the left pane, select Delete pages , and the select OK to confirm.
You can't delete all pages; at least one page must remain in the document.
If you select Use Logical Page Numbers in the Page Display panel of the Preferences dialog box, you can enter a page number in parentheses to delete the corresponding page. For example, if the first page in the document is numbered i, you can enter (1) in the Enter Page Range list, and the page is deleted.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed on the left pane. The page thumbnails are displayed in the document area.
Select a page thumbnail that you want to delete. Then, select Delete from the Organize pages toolset to delete the page.
Alternatively, select the Page Thumbnails button in the navigation pane. Then select the page or group of pages that you want to delete.
Select the Delete icon to delete the page.
Steps:
Open the PDF in Acrobat, and choose All tools > Organize pages, or choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar.
The Organize pages toolset is displayed on the left.
In the left pane, select Replace. The file explorer window appears.
Select the document containing the replacement pages.
Under Original, enter the pages to be replaced in the original document.
Under Replacement, enter the first page of the replacement page range. The last page is calculated based on the number of pages to be replaced in the original document.
Select OK.
Steps:
Press Ctrl+Alt and then drag the selected page thumbnails onto the Pages panel of the target document. Release the mouse button when the pointer is directly over the page number box of the page thumbnail you want to replace. The corresponding pages are highlighted.
The pages you selected in the first document replace an equal number of pages in the second document. It starts at the page number that you selected to drop the new pages.
The page numbers on the document pages don't always match the page numbers that appear below the page thumbnails and in the Page Navigation toolbar. Pages are numbered with integers, starting with page 1 for the first page of the document. Because some PDFs may contain front matter, such as a copyright page and table of contents, their body pages may not follow the numbering shown in the Page Navigation toolbar.
You can specify various numbering styles for a group of pages, for example, 1, 2, 3, or i, ii, iii, or a, b, c. You can also customize the numbering system by adding a prefix. For example, pages in Chapter 1 can be 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, and so on. Chapter 2 can have pages numbered as 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, and so on.
Using the Number Pages command affects only the page thumbnails on the Pages panel. You can physically add new page numbers to a PDF using the headers and footers feature.
Steps:
In the navigation pane, select the Page Thumbnails button to open the Page Thumbnails panel.
Choose Page Labels from the Options menu. Alternatively, choose Edit > Organize pages from the global bar, and then select Page labels from the Organize pages toolset.
Specify a page range. (Selected implies pages selected in the Page Thumbnails panel.)
Select one of the following, and then select OK:
Begin New Section
Starts a new numbering sequence. Choose a style from the pop-up menu, and enter a starting page number for the section. Specify a Prefix, if desired.
Extend Numbering Used In Preceding Section To Selected Pages
Continues the numbering sequence from previous pages without interruption.