How to add, delete and reorder the pages of a PDF

▶ 1. The pages panel

Every operation on pages is gathered in a single screen, where the document appears as a grid of draggable thumbnails.

1. Install the extension from the download page; it is a Chrome extension, so it works the same on Windows, Mac and Linux.
2. Open the file with Choose a PDF (or Open PDF).
3. Go into Organize pages to see the document as a grid of thumbnails.
4. When you are done, click Apply page changes to bring the new structure back into the editor.

＋ 2. Adding pages

You can add a blank page, a ready-made layout, or the pages of another document.

1. Blank page — inserts a blank sheet, handy for a note, an attachment or the table of contents.
2. Add Template Page — adds a page already laid out, chosen among the 16 included templates.
3. Merge multiple PDFs — brings in the pages of other PDFs: add the files, order them and click Import.
4. After inserting, drag the thumbnail into the right position.

✕ 3. Deleting and extracting pages

Removing what is unnecessary and isolating what you need are two sides of the same operation.

1. To remove, select the pages you do not need and delete them from the grid.
2. To keep only part of the document, select those pages and use Extract selected pages: you get a new document with just them.
3. Extracting is often better than deleting when you have to send someone a single chapter of a long document.

▦ 4. Reordering, rotating, duplicating

The wrong order and upside-down pages are the two most common flaws in documents made of scans.

1. Drag the thumbnails to put them back in the correct sequence.
2. Straighten crooked pages with Rotate left or Rotate right.
3. Use Duplicate page to repeat a layout that already works instead of rebuilding it.

▣ 5. Cropping and resizing

Useful when pages come from different sources and are not all the same size, or when a scan has huge margins.

1. Crop page — set the margins to remove in millimetres to cut away excess borders.
2. Resize page — bring the pages to A4, Letter, Legal or a custom size.
3. Making the format uniform before printing stops some pages coming out shrunk or with clipped edges.

⧈ 6. Splitting the document

When a single PDF is too long or too heavy, it is worth breaking it into separate files.

1. Set Split every N pages with the interval you need.
2. Click Split PDF to get the separate documents.
3. To put everything back together later, the reverse route is Merge/Split PDF.

? 7. Frequently asked questions

The questions that come up most often on this topic.