Delete pages

Dorico
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I’m aware that this topic has been discussed in this thread - but it doesn’t solve my problem: Deleting empty pages - #4 by dspreadbury - Dorico - Steinberg Forums

I’m trying to make a user defined template - as a file I can open and start working on by saving under another name. It holds all the information I use on front and back cover including a few other things. I would like the template to be 8 pages. But I started working using an existing project which has 12 pages. Hence it would be nice to simply delete the empty pages. I’ve tried using the icon for removing overrides - as discussed in the earlier thread. It does not work - see video here: - YouTube

I can’t select the pages in the working area and delete from there either.

I should probably create master pages with the cover setup instead.

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The reason you can’t delete pages 3–6 is that you have overridden pages later in the layout. The way it works is that an overridden page lives at a fixed position in the list of pages, so if you have an override on page 7, then pages 1–6 must exist, in order that the override on page 7 can exist.

You should find that you can move the overridden pages towards the front of the order using the move page earlier/later buttons (with the < and > icons in the action bar at the bottom of the Pages section of the right-hand panel in Engrave mode), which will effectively remove the empty pages.

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Thank you,
It worked.