Rearranging the order of pages in Word 2010

You are correct. I meant a "navigation-like" pane, OK "thumbnails". My apologies for focusing on the solution instead of the verbiage . But Pages did come free with iPad as well as with my Mac. But you are absolutely wrong, you can drag and drop and rearrange pages before converting it to a doc format that Word will recognize. In fact, I do it all the time and just did it. However, once you save it as a doc, it behaves like Word.

Defend Word all you want, but this simple task should be available. And putting the user at fault instead of focusing on a solution is a typical Microsoft practice. Perhaps that's why after all this time it still can't be done. Perhaps we need add another "ribbon" to make it happen.

As usual, I spent more time looking for a solution, than getting it done. Which is exactly why I prefer a Mac.

I create Pages templates for companies. While there are free versions of Pages on iCloud and iOS devices, Pages for Macis $19.99 at the App Store.

Pages does not have a Navigation Pane, that is a Word feature. In Word's Navigation Pane, you can rearrange content by dragging and dropping headings, though you can't drag and drop pages. This works for a straight text document without breaks.

Pages does have a Pages thumbnail view. However, if you create a straight text document, you cannot move the pages in the thumbnail view. Why? Because Pages is a word processor and operates like every other word processor. It's not a page layout program. To change the page order, you must insert a section break at the end of each page to be moved. Then you can drag and drop the pages.

This section (or page) break technique also works in Word (and every other word processor) to make it easier to move pages by copy and paste. In fact it's roughly what is suggested in the first answer to this 3-year-old thread. Unfortunately, in Pages, you can't drag and drop content by headings like you can in Word.

That is the biggest line of bull I've ever heard.

If MS Word doesn't offer the ability to re-arrange pages in a Word document, that's one thing. But statements that most users don't require or expect this functionality, and quotes from others, such as ["No word processor is designed to re-order content by page. That's not what word-processing* is for"], is as ridiculous as the application's inability to perform this simple task. And other posts implying if the document was "well-designed", this wouldn't be such a chore, are as equally ridiculous. Perhaps, if the "application" was well-designed instead, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

*Using Pages on my Mac, I simply need to open the navigation pane, and drag a page into a new position. Done... in a matter of seconds! Strange how a FREE app recognizes simple drag and drop functionality, but a behemoth, like MS Office, can't handle it.