

Just open the PDF in Word and tinker with the pages. Some printing services charge per document as well as per page so combining PDF’s can save a little money.Įver since Word got PDF import features, it’s been possible to use Word to split or combine PDFs. Separate PDF’s saved from Word, Excel or Powerpoint can be mushed into one file. You’ll be prompted for a new PDF file name and folder to save it. The result is another PDF file with just the pages you’ve chosen. There are options to print non-continuous pages like 1, 3-5 to print page 1, 3,4 and 5. For example, a 10 page PDF can be compressed to just 3 pages by printing pages 2-4 only. The simple way split up a PDF is to open the file in any PDF viewing program then ‘Print’ to another PDF file.īoth Windows and Mac have in-built PDF viewers and also ‘Print to PDF’ options that take the print commands from any program and save them to a PDF file (not a printer).Īll you do is open the PDF in any viewer then ‘print’ the pages you want.

Using ‘Print to PDF’ to save some PDF pages Here’s how to make a smaller PDF with just the key info pages. The main info is on the first or second page followed by pages of ‘fine print’ and ads. We often do this with airplane and car rental paperwork. Let’s start with the really easy trick to ‘split’ a PDF or just make a smaller PDF with only some pages from the larger original file. There’s a way to get some pages from a larger PDF that’s not only free but already installed in Windows and Mac computer. Here’s how to do that for free without bothering with Word’s PDF conversion feature. Sometimes you need to merge or split a PDF file.
