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Knowing how to delete a page from a PDF file will improve your mastery of document editing. As you format and make changes to your PDF, especially when condensing information, you may end up with extra pages you do not need.

There are many reasons why you may need to delete the pages of your document. But, what’s important is that the PDF editor you are working with makes it easy for you to remove pages from your document. Soda PDF gives you a couple of ways you can accomplish the task.

Delete pages from Preview Pane

Firstly, the preview pane serves as your main document management center. You will see a preview of each page, and you can interact with them directly.

1. Click on the Preview Pane icon on the left side.
2. Click the pin icon to keep it open as you continue your work.

1. Click on a page to select it.
   1. Hold down the CTRL key while clicking to select additional pages. Make sure to only click while pressing the CTRL key or else you’ll only be selecting the new page.
   2. You can also select a range of pages at once if they are all in a row. Once you have selected the first page, hold down the Shift. Then when you click on the last page to be selected, all the pages in between will also be selected.
   3. You can also hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor to highlight and select multiple pages at once.

Selecting a single page will bring you to it and you will see a blue border surrounding the page.

Selecting multiple pages will result in a red border surrounding the pages after you have selected them.

1. Right click on any selected page.
2. You can also hit Delete.

Your page(s) will be deleted from the PDF.

Delete Pages from Edit Module

1. Open the Edit Module.
2. Choose Delete in the pages section.

1. Choose the Page to Delete.
   1. Current – This will only delete the current page.
   2. First – This will delete Page 1 of your document.
   3. Last – This will delete the final page of your document.
   4. Range – This will delete a custom range of pages. You can segment the pages:
      1. Using a dash (–) tells the app to delete all the pages between the specific page numbers. To delete all pages between 2 and 5 you would type in “2-5”.
      2. Using a comma (,) you can add multiple groups of pages. To delete all pages from 2 to 5, page 8 and then 10 and 11, type in “2-5, 8, 10-11”.

1. Click on Delete to remove the pages.

Your pages will be removed.

Deleting pages will only become permanent once you save your file. If you made a mistake and want to bring a page back, you can use the Undo feature.

1. Click on the back arrow at the top of the Soda PDF window.
2. You can also hold down CTRL+Z.

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