Q: How to delete a page in Pages 5.0?

Very helpful article here that puts all this "hey where did my ___(name any of these missing features)_____go?!?!".'09

Back to '09 everyone (until '13 catches up or '09 is renamed).

-David

Apple I kind of hate you right now. 

They're becoming what's wrong with Google lately - new versions that remove fantastic features from previous versions.  Upgrades are now downgrades.

Aggghhhh!!!

Essentially there are two different styles of working with Pages 5. The first is as a word processor, where pages are automatically added and deleted depending on the content you create in one continuous "flow", called the Document Body. In this style of working, you can't delete the pages from the thumbnail panel because, in effect there are no separate pages - it's just one flow of content.

The second style of working is more like a page layout program, where elements are fixed in their position on each page, and do not flow from one page to the next. In this style, each page is its own content that can be deleted from the thumbnail pane.

The trick is to decide which style you want to be working in first. To do this, open the Document Setup inspector and make sure Document Body is checked (word processor style) or unchecked (page layout style). With Document Body unchecked, you'll be able to select pages from the thumbnail panel and hit Delete to delete it.

With Document Body checked, you have to delete the content within the flow of the document to add / remove pages.

Hope this helps!

Logically you should be able to delete and move the sections in the regular Word Processing (Document Body) document, but can't.

Even in the Layout (No Document Body) document you can delete but not move pages.

Peter

I had this problem today.  I deleted every item in the 2nd page of my template and the entire 2nd page disappeared by itself (using a pre-made Pages template for newsletter -- it was 2 pages, i only wanted 1 page).

By deleting everything on the 2nd page, i mean, all text in the footer, header, pictures, text, and the pre-made lines set up to separate columns in the documnet. 

Hope this helps!

YOU CAN DELETE A PAGE in PAGES 5.0. I hope that more of the many things I hate about 5.0 so far (just "downgraded" to 5.0 this week) will be as easy to fix as this.

In Pages 5.0, click on VIEW menu. Click SHOW PAGE THUMBNAILS. Click on the page you want to delete, to select it. Hit the DELETE key, and the page disappears.

This works exactly the same way as the Preview App. Just view the thumbnails, and delete at will.

Hope that helps.

joeyb1961

Helps if you actually read:

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

 

Logically you should be able to delete and move the sections in the regular Word Processing (Document Body) document, but can't.

 

Even in the Layout (No Document Body) document you can delete but not move pages.

 

Meanwhile the list of removed features has grown to well over 90.

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&mforum=iworktipsn trick

Peter

I wish I could provide a solution for this - but the only post I can add is how this feature is not availble.  It was the one feature of Pages that really stood out from Word - the abiliity to move, delete and add pages to your document in a way that was quick and easy in comparision to anything else.

Apple - here's an idea - try some reasearch with users before you mess with your software - you might find what we all do has a bearing on what you deceide to change and in turn on what software we choose to use.  Right now when it comes to word processing, it ain't yours we're going to be using - smarten up people!

Have you tried moving the content of the page you want to move?

I have multiple pages to move around  - copy, paste and delete (basically Award certificates - 1 per page)  - so the content route is just too time consuming by far.  Reverted back to 4.3 - still on my machine so just finished the job in 30 minutes rather than 3 hours + it would have taken in 5.0 shifting content around.

Wise move!

Agreed: Wise Move. To save the hours involved in re-sequencing pages in v5, I'll probably revert to Pages '09 with my next task. I say 'probably' because I'm still wondering if I need to recoup some of my lost time, which I've 'invested' in Pages v5, by learning WHY v5 is so different (difficult?). Could it be that once I understand what v5 is doing with Section and Page Breaks, movable and text-flowable objects, headers and footer changes, just maybe I'll be able to use it for simple tasks?  I have successfully resequenced pages by tailoring all of the above, while very carefully monitoring the thumbnails, from top to bottom , page 1 to page 26, for any undesirable, unexpected changes to page format, which were many and took an embarassingly unbelievable amount of time.  In retrospect, it appears to me that I needed to start the document from scratch, as a 'dcoument' (check box ON) and VERY CAREFULLY adjust all properties of the few objects I placed inline as I placed them in the document, NOT after they're placed in the document. Also, watching thumbnails for offsets, which indicate Section start/end, was critical, since I had to manage headers and footers (page numbers) very carefully. Of course, view Visibles and view Layout was always turned on, or Section management is nigh impossible, at my experience level.  For a 26 page document, I ended up with about 6 sections and objects that each had their properties adjusted for their relative positioning with text and pages, page numbers that started and stopped where I wanted them and headers that changed at the correct page(s). Two-up view in Pages wouldv'e helped, but since that's no longer part of Pages v5, I used 2-up in the Preview PDF viewer heavily.

Very well said.  I concur 100%. 

Did anyone figure out how to move pages.  I had to save into '09 and do it that way which seems madness to me!

Did you miss the Memo?

It has effectively been removed from Pages 5.

Peter