How to Change the Page Order in a PDF

By Monica Williams

After creating your PDF file, you may decide that you need to change the page order.
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A Portable Document Format (PDF) file is one of the most common ways to send documents online. It's appearance is that of a "photo snapshot" of the document or "page image," so there is no worry about the formatting being disrupted or fonts not displaying. After creating your PDF file, you may decide that you need to change the page order of your document, and in Adobe Acrobat that is easy to accomplish in a few short steps.

Step 1

Open Adobe Acrobat and open the PDF file that you want to change the page order of.

Step 2

Click on the Pages icon on the left-hand side of the screen. This will open the "Pages" sidebar.

Step 3

Left-click on the page you want to move and drag it to the desired position.

Step 4

Repeat Step 3 for each page that you want to change pagination for.

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