deleting in pages of a duplicated doc

I duplicated my document and wish to delete the duplicated doc - I went to 'page thumb nail' to do this but all it allows me to do is delete the whole doc. I only want to delete the copy. I've tried selecting each page to delete also.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 13.2

Posted on Apr 16, 2023 8:35 PM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2023 5:04 AM

Pages supports two types of documents: 1) standard word processing document, and 2) page layout document.


You cannot remove document pages using thumbnails in the first type of document, because that will remove all content in your document. It warns you about that. The page layout document features every thumbnail as its own discrete section and you can use the thumbnails to remove one or more pages of content.


In your case, you have a word processing document and you would need to select all content on a page that you wish to remove and then backspace once or twice to remove that entire page content.

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Apr 17, 2023 5:04 AM in response to TheBell

Pages supports two types of documents: 1) standard word processing document, and 2) page layout document.


You cannot remove document pages using thumbnails in the first type of document, because that will remove all content in your document. It warns you about that. The page layout document features every thumbnail as its own discrete section and you can use the thumbnails to remove one or more pages of content.


In your case, you have a word processing document and you would need to select all content on a page that you wish to remove and then backspace once or twice to remove that entire page content.

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