Rearranging the order of pages in Word 2010

Anonymous
2012-03-15T13:24:51+00:00

In Word 2010  can you sort pages like you can sort pages in Powerpoint by simply dragging and dropping ?  If not by dragging and dropping, how?

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Charles Kenyon 170.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2012-03-15T13:41:49+00:00

In Word 2010  can you sort pages like you can sort pages in Powerpoint by simply dragging and dropping ?  If not by dragging and dropping, how?

Nope.

Word is a text flow program. It prints text on pages but doesn't really organize by page. Powerpoint is a slide show program. It does organize by slides.

You can cut and paste text.

If you have used heading styles to organize your document, you can use the navigation pane to move logical sections around.

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2012-03-15T15:20:45+00:00

If each page begins with a heading  formatted with a page break before (instead of a manual page break between pages), you can switch to outline view, collapse the view to the heading level used at the tops of pages (say, heading 1), and move (by dragging or by cutting and pasting) the headings.  The content under the heading will move with them.  Also in outline view, you can sort the headings.   When cutting in outline view, you must include the heading's paragraph mark so that subheads and text will be included in the cut.  

The navigation pane also allows you to collapse or expand the heading levels shown and to drag headings to rearrange, but as far as I know, you cannot cut and paste to move headings and you cannot sort them.

HTH,

Pam

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  1. Charles Kenyon 170.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-24T20:54:21+00:00

    The navigation pane also allows you to collapse or expand the heading levels shown and to drag headings to rearrange, but as far as I know, you cannot cut and paste to move headings and you cannot sort them.

    HTH,

    Pam

    In the navigation pane you can drag and drop headings. Doing so moves everything between that heading and the next one of the same level. This is extremely powerful.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-08-04T18:37:28+00:00

    You are wrong - not knowing how to do it (and now finding out I can't) is exactly why I am in the forum.  LOTS of people would like to be able to do that - especially business users.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-21T05:19:10+00:00

    Just because it doesn't fit your profile of how a Word processor should work does not make it 'garbage'.

    There are no 'pages' in a word document. It is not a page layout application. It works by flowing text into predefined formats.

    If you want a page layout application, there are plenty of applications of that type available. See http://page-layout-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ but Word is not one of them.

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