how to delete just one page in Pages 4.3

The KEY FACTOR is that you need to be in page layout mode. So highlight (yellow box) the section that contains the page you want to delete then go to -

File

Convert to Page layout

Confirm

Select the page you want to delete

Edit > Delete

BINGO.

It took me almost a year to figure this out. Apple - Do something about this!!! This is not intuitive. Very bad thought process on your part!!!!!! And I am a hard core fan of Apple.

The yellow box indicates a Section. All the pages in a section stick together because the text flows from one page to the next.

You can split up your document by clicking in the text where you want to break it up:

Menu > Insert > Section Break

Peter

If the section break is sending blank pages to the end, it is probably because you have selected the (yellow bordered) section in the sidebar, instead of putting the cursor on the actual page, at the point where you want to insert the section break.

Forget about the page thumbnails.

Let's say that page 12 is in the middle of a section and you want to delete it.

On page 12, in the actual document, not the thumbnails, click somewhere in the first line of text so that the cursor appears. Use the left arrow key to move the cursor until it is just before the first letter on the line. Now, from the Insert menu, insert a Section Break (not a section).

On page 13, do the same thing; i.e. insert a Section Break before the first character.

Now you can go to the thumbnails, click on the Page 12 thumbnail and it will be a section all by itself. Click the Delete key.

(I am sort of assuming that there are no invisible characters before the first one that you see, but if there are, you obviously have to get before them too.)

Ola,

I found a simple way in my case to solve the Delete pages, as default when I added new images for my backgrounds, the images came with "text wrap" turned on, if you select the images and turn off the Text wrap, everything now is working fine 😁

Tom

In the search box under Pages Help, type in “delete,” and choose Deleting Pages from the Help topics section. The following is the relevant passage, since it appears that pages 12 - 47 are in a single section, and won't allow you to delete a single page.

To remove a page without deleting other pages in its section, delete all the text and objects on the page.

You did not click in the text before and after where you wanted the separate page.

Or it sounds like you inserted a Section and not a Section Break.

Peter

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Here is my experience. I have a seven page document that is all one section. After enabling page thumbnails, I chose the page to delete, and then selected all text on that specific page. A backspace removed only that text, and the content on the next page flowed up to fill the page vacancy. Now there were only six thumbnails.

This correlates well with the quoted passage from the Pages Help that I sent earlier.