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. Anonymous
    2015-12-09T18:28:25+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T21:44:16+00:00

    I would agree. It's just a pain that at the minute I happen to fit into the 0.01% of people who do want to rearrange the page order!

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