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Subject:Re: Deleting a range of pages in Word? From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:21:10 -0700
And imagine a macro combining these keystrokes (below), combined with two
bookmarks defining the beginning and end of the section to keep......
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Tim J. Slager
<TSlager -at- isdcorporation -dot- com>wrote:
> Since other suggestions seem more complicated and this might be helpful to
> others, here's what I suggested to Steve:
>
> - place the cursor immediately before the section you are keeping.
> - press CTRL + SHIFT + HOME
> - press DELETE
> - place the cursor immediately after the section you are keeping.
> - press CTRL + SHIFT + END
> - press DELETE
>
> Faster than specifying page ranges, in my book.
>
> tims
>
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> techwr-l-bounces+tslager=isdcorporation -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf
> Of Tony Chung
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: Deleting a range of pages in Word?
>
> That's because Word doesn't understand the concept of pages. Word's object
> model refers to ranges, characters, paragraphs and stories.
>
> You could write a macro to automate your existing delete process.
> Something like "delete from beginning to here", and "delete from here to
> end".
>
> -Tony
>
>
>
> On 2011-04-21, at 3:07 PM, "Janoff, Steve" <sjanoff -at- illumina -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In a 100-page document in Word (either 2007 or 2010, not sure), is there
> a simple way to delete all but 2 pages?
> >
> > Haven't been able to find a way to specify a page range to delete, as you
> would in Acrobat, for example.
> >
> > Thanks. Apologies if this is trivial or has been answered before.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > PS - The usual way is select everything after and delete, and select
> everything before and delete, but looking for page-range-specification
> delete. Thanks again.
> >
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