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Preview User Guide

• Welcome
• Open PDFs and images
• View PDFs or images
  • View PDFs and images
  • Find text in PDFs
  • Interact with text in a photo
  • Bookmark PDF pages
  • View information about PDFs and images
  • Import images from a camera
  • See where a photo was taken
  • Display a PDF as a slideshow
  • View an animated GIF’s frames
• Edit PDFs
  • Fill out and sign PDF forms
  • Select and copy text in a PDF
  • Highlight, underline, and strike out text
  • Add notes and speech bubbles to a PDF
  • Annotate a PDF
  • Combine PDFs
  • Add, delete, or move PDF pages
  • Crop or rotate a PDF
  • Add effects to a PDF
• Edit images
  • Crop, resize, or rotate an image
  • Convert image file types
  • Extract an image or remove a background
  • Annotate an image
  • See what an image looks like on another device
  • Apply a color profile to an image
• Manage PDFs or images
  • Save PDFs and images
  • Revert changes to PDFs and images
  • Copy PDFs and images
  • Lock PDFs and images
  • Export PDFs and images
  • Password-protect a PDF
  • Compress a PDF
• Print PDFs and images
• Troubleshooting
  • If you can’t select or copy text in a PDF
  • If images or PDFs aren’t the correct size
  • If Go to Page shows the wrong page of a PDF
• Change Preview settings
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright

You can open a PDF in Preview, then add, delete, and rearrange pages, or move pages from one PDF to another.

Open Preview for me

1. Go to the Preview app on your Mac.

2. Open the PDF you want to change.

3. Do any of the following:

   • Add a page to a PDF: Select the page you want to appear before the new page, choose Edit > Insert, then choose Page from File or Blank Page.

     The new page is inserted after the current page.

     Tip: To add new pages, you can also choose View > Thumbnails, click at the bottom of the sidebar, then choose Insert from File or Insert Blank Page.

   • Delete a page from a PDF: Choose View > Thumbnails or View > Contact Sheet, select the page or pages to delete, then press the Delete key on your keyboard (or choose Edit > Delete).

     When you delete a page from a PDF, all the annotations on the page are removed as well.

   • Move pages in a PDF: Choose View > Thumbnails or View > Contact Sheet, then drag the pages to their new location.

   • Move a page from one PDF to another: In each PDF, choose View > Thumbnails or View > Contact Sheet, then drag thumbnail images from one PDF to the other.

You can also create a new PDF by dragging thumbnails from a PDF sidebar to the desktop.

See alsoSelect and copy text in a PDF in Preview on MacAnnotate a PDF in Preview on MacCombine PDFs in Preview on MacDisplay several files in one Preview window on Mac Helpful? Yes No Character limit: 250 Please don’t include any personal information in your comment. Maximum character limit is 250. Submit Thanks for your feedback.