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Dave_Cason
May 09, 2024Copper Contributor
why is this SO hard ......
Hi, I've inherited a few docs from a person who left and I'm no MS WORD guru. (grin) All I'm trying to do is pull out pages from a bigger doc and extract some forms from it. There are these "S...
- May 15, 2024Hi Charles,
I think I got it ...... I took the pages I needed from the old document - cut and pasted the pages I wanted plus the preceding page and the page following what I needed - so if I want the middle page I grabbed 3 in total.
- Deleted page one and it usually shifted the document up one page so now it's down to 2 pages
- Then clicked the Show / Hide button - Cntl*Shift*8
- Place the cursor in the portrait page before the section break;
- Click the Page Setup dialogue box launcher (Layout > Page Setup);
- Clicked OK (or press Enter), without making any changes to the settings;
- Place the cursor in the landscape page following the section break;
- Press F4.
That seems to clear out that last blank page I never needed !!
Cheers'
Dave
Dave_Cason
May 15, 2024Copper Contributor
Hi Charles,
I think I got it ...... I took the pages I needed from the old document - cut and pasted the pages I wanted plus the preceding page and the page following what I needed - so if I want the middle page I grabbed 3 in total.
- Deleted page one and it usually shifted the document up one page so now it's down to 2 pages
- Then clicked the Show / Hide button - Cntl*Shift*8
- Place the cursor in the portrait page before the section break;
- Click the Page Setup dialogue box launcher (Layout > Page Setup);
- Clicked OK (or press Enter), without making any changes to the settings;
- Place the cursor in the landscape page following the section break;
- Press F4.
That seems to clear out that last blank page I never needed !!
Cheers'
Dave
I think I got it ...... I took the pages I needed from the old document - cut and pasted the pages I wanted plus the preceding page and the page following what I needed - so if I want the middle page I grabbed 3 in total.
- Deleted page one and it usually shifted the document up one page so now it's down to 2 pages
- Then clicked the Show / Hide button - Cntl*Shift*8
- Place the cursor in the portrait page before the section break;
- Click the Page Setup dialogue box launcher (Layout > Page Setup);
- Clicked OK (or press Enter), without making any changes to the settings;
- Place the cursor in the landscape page following the section break;
- Press F4.
That seems to clear out that last blank page I never needed !!
Cheers'
Dave
Charles_Kenyon
May 15, 2024Bronze Contributor
I am delighted that you figured it out. Sorry, but it really can be hard.