How to Drag and Drop Pages from a PDF Document Into Another PDF Document

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If you're trying to consolidate pages from different PDF documents into one PDF document, the process can be a little tricky but efficient. This wikiHow shows you how to drag and drop pages between PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat.

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Open the PDF document you would like to add pages to. This will be the recipient document. Navigate to the PDF document in your files and click on it to pull it up in Adobe Reader.

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Hover your cursor over the Tile option and select Horizontally . You can access this option by clicking on the Window tab in the menu ribbon at the top of the screen. Acrobat displays both the open documents in separate document windows.

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Click the Pages tab on each document. The Pages pane for each document displays thumbnail images of the pages in the documents.

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Drag the right margins of the Pages pane of each document to the right. You'll need to do this to display the largest possible number of page thumbnails in each PDF document.

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Select the thumbnail image of the pages you want to add to the recipient document. Make sure to press the Ctrl key while selecting, since this enables you to select multiple thumbnail images.

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Drag the selected thumbnail images from the donor document's Pages pane to the recipient document's Pages pane. The Pages pane of the recipient document displays a blue bar to indicate the position in the document where the pages will be inserted. You can insert pages between any of the pages of the recipient document.

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To save the changes, select the recipient document window, and click Save under the File menu.

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Computer & Tech Specialist

Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years.

Computer & Tech Specialist Expert Answer

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