Deleting pages in Publisher

[Phillip Mannion]

I have a Publisher file which is made up of a series of hand written letters and their transcripts. The transcripts are on the right-hand pages, in text frames which flow into each other. The original letters are in picture frames on the facing left-hand pages, and the letters are pinned to the start of the first word on the right-hand pages. Some letters are more than one page. It was all working well, until I was asked to move a (multi-page) letter forward in the text. (I know - get the text sorted out in Word first etc. Life isn't always like that, sadly.) So, Letters 1,2,3,4,5,6 became 1,2,3,5,4,6. I did this by creating extra pages before letter 4, copying letter 5 and pasting it into the new spaces, and then I attempted to delete the original letter 5. But I ended up with two blank pages which I cannot delete. (The master pages didn't have text frames on them when I created the file, so the intervening step was to add them and do the linking to them, but I am learning as I go along.)

 

So, why can I not delete the blank pages? What should i have done instead? It seems like it should be easy to achieve, and I am sure it is, really - but I don't know how, or where I went wrong.

 

Any help greatly appreciated. I can add a file if needed, if there isn't some obvious mistake I have made.

 

Phillip

[MikeTO]

I'm a bit confused because you said the right-page text frames are all linked together. You should have been able to move 5 before 5 by cutting the text and the pinned letter image for 5 from the story (text flow) and then positioning the text cursor before the first character on page 4 and pasting it in. You shouldn't have had to create blank pages at all.

If you're able to share the file publicly (or send it to me through a private dropbox link) , I'd be happy to look at it and try to fix it for you.

But in a nutshell:

• Next time use master pages but that's not a big deal
• Link all the right-side text frames in sequence
• Pin the left-side letter images to the appropriate spot in the right side pages
• Then never create or move pages, just select ranges of text, cut, and then paste it in where it should go

Good luck!

[Phillip Mannion]

Thanks Mike. That fixed it - I don't know why I thought I couldn't just carry out that simple set of actions, nor what I did that was wrong. But I fixed it in that simple way.

 

Phillip