Deleting a Range of Pages in Microsoft Word at Once with 1 action: Deleting a Range of Pages in Microsoft Word at Once with 1 action:

Suppose you have a document of 30 pages and you want to delete pages 12 to 18. You may wonder if there is a way to delete that range with a single action. Not with a single action, no. The reason is because Word technically knows nothing about pages. Page designations are very fluid, depending on all sorts of variables such as the amount of text in a document, what formatting is applied, and which printer driver is being used.

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That being said, there is a moderately easy way to delete pages 12 to 18. Follow these steps:

Step 1. Press F5. Word displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. The Pages option should be selected, by default, at the left of the dialog box.

Step 2. Type 12 into the Enter a Page Number box and then press Enter. Word jumps to the beginning of page 12.

Step 3. Press Esc if the Find and Replace dialog box doesn’t go away on its own (it will in some versions of Word).

Step 4. Press F8. This turns on Extend mode.

Note: Don’t click anywhere just press F8

Step 5. Again Press F5. Word again displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

Step 6. Now Type 18 into the box and then press Enter. Word jumps to the beginning of page 18, but selects everything from the last insertion point location because you are using Extend mode. This means that you now have everything on pages 12 through 18 selected

Step 7. Press the Delete key. Even though this process is noted here as 7steps, it really is quite quick to perform. I was able to perform them in less than 5 seconds, which is a pretty fast way to get rid of a group of pages.

Method 2: r way to approach the task is to use the Zoom control to set a very small zoom factor. If you set something like 10% or 20%, you should see a number of pages on the screen at the same time. You can then use the mouse to easily select the pages you want to delete and then delete them. If you haven’t caught on to the idea yet, in Word you need to select text (not pages) and then delete the text. Thus, another way to quickly select the text that comprises pages 12 through 18 is to jump to the beginning of page 12 and make sure the insertion point is there. Then, click on the “thumb button” on the vertical scroll bar at the right of the window and drag it until you see that it is on page 18. As you hold the Shift key, click at the point on the page where you want your text selection to end. You can then delete the selection.

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