Deleting pages

You can delete empty pages and any extra pages you have added to layouts.

Dorico Pro automatically creates enough pages and frames to display the flows assigned to both the layout and the layout’s page template frame chain. If you want to delete pages because you do not want to show certain flows, you can instead remove those flows from the layout or the page template frame chain.

You only need to delete pages manually if you inserted them as a blank page or made an override to a page in a layout that is no longer required and now appears blank. For example, an override on the final page in a layout prevents that page and all previous pages being automatically deleted if the layout becomes shorter.

Prerequisite

The right zone is shown.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, open the layout from which you want to delete pages.
  2. In the Pages section of the Pages panel, select the pages you want to delete.

    You can Shift-click adjacent pages and Ctrl/Cmd-click individual pages.

    Note

    You can only delete pages that are considered page format changes.

  3. Delete the selected pages by removing all their page format changes.
    • If any pages in your selection have red triangles in their top left corner, click Remove Overrides in the Pages section action bar.

    • If any pages in your selection have purple triangles in their bottom right corner, right-click a page and choose Remove Page Number Change(s) from the context menu.

    • If any pages in your selection have green markings on their top/top and left edges, right-click a page and choose Remove Page Template Change(s) from the context menu.

    • If any pages in your selection have yellow markings on their bottom/bottom and right edges, right-click a page and choose Remove Flow Heading Change(s) from the context menu.

Result

Once you have removed all overrides from all the pages you want to delete, they are deleted if they are empty. If they are not empty, removing all their overrides reverts them back to following their default page template.