how to delete just one page in Pages 4.3

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

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.)

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.

I figred it out: you go to the document section, and uncheck the header and footer section. write something on the page you want to delete, and then select it all and delete it ... and taadaaaa! 🙂

it worked for me. so ... good luck!

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.

Sorry it took you a whole year to come up with your solution, but you are wrong.

I have no idea what your IQ is but believe me it will have to be extremely competitive.

Converting to Layout will delete all your content that is not in floating objects. Even material that is floating but anchored in the text. Which seems ridiculous when all you want is to delete a page.

If you want me to walk you through it step by step, start with what version of Pages you are using.

Peter

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.

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.

I am having a similar problem, but don't quite follow your solution. I have placed a photo in my manuscript that I copied from an Internet site. It somehow floated to a different page. It also seems to have usurped some margin space, though it looks good. When I click on it it appears with small xs at the corners and won't delete or move. I think I've tried all the suggestion in this thread.

At the moment, all thumbnails appear as one section, which is what I want until I section off and page-number my 150-page memoir.

It's been a nightmare writing this book in Pages because I was long into Pages 5 before discovering I had to revert to 4.3 if I wanted to format book pages and margins, etc. Lots of cutting and pasting.

I know this is an old thread, but hope someone can help me delete this photo. I get it that I something is wrong with the pic itself, since all my other photos are in place no problem. If it is a section within a section, what then??

Wow! Not to have seen Arrange on the Menu bar. Many thanks, picas, for your patient reply. Problem solved with just one click. Peter, thanks, too, for your advice. I'm a long time computer user -- not that you could tell from my post -- except from the fact that I'm old enough to have written a memoir. Maybe that's the problem. Ha!