How to reorder pages in a PDF

Scanners and merges love to put pages in the wrong order. Reordering is a visual, drag-and-drop job once you can see the pages as thumbnails.

Work from thumbnails

Seeing every page as a thumbnail makes the right order obvious. Drag a page to its new slot and the rest shift to fit.

Common fixes

• A reverse-order scan (last page first).
• An appendix that landed in the middle.
• Interleaved fronts and backs from a two-pass scan.

Reversing everything

If a whole document is backwards, reverse the page order in one action rather than dragging each page.