Reordering Slide Pages in Adobe Acrobat
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Date Created: May 5th 2009
Last Updated: May 5th 2009
Excerpt/Capsule: This tutorial shows how to reorder slide pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
This tutorial is part of the PowerPoint to Secure PDF series. In this tutorial I'll show you how to reorder slide pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Changing the order of pages in a PDF is very easy, using the drag-and-drop capability within Acrobat's Navigation tab.
Follow these steps:
- Open any PDF that you want to reorder pages for within Adobe Acrobat Pro. When the PDF is opened for the first time, the interface might look like as what you can see in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Open PDF
- From the View menu, choose Navigation Panels | Pages, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Pages
- This will open the Pages navigation panel in Adobe Acrobat Pro interface, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Pages navigation panel
Alternatively, you can even choose the Pages button within Adobe Acrobat Pro (see Figure 4).

Figure 4: Pages
- Now just drag and drop the thumbnails in Pages navigation panel to rearrange the pages as required in your document, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Drag and drop slide pages
- Save the re-ordered PDF.
In the next tutorial of this series, we'll explore how to edit a PDF so that it opens by default in full screen mode.
Previous Topic: Deleting Slide Pages in Adobe Acrobat
Next Topic: Full Screen PDFs
