Introduction:

The question is sometimes asked: How can I move pages within a Microsoft Word document?
The brief answer is Copy and Paste. The full answer is more complex and requires an understanding of how Word looks at text and does not see pages.

Word does not understand pages. It doesn't use pages, despite appearances to the contrary.

Word is a text-flow program where text is set in a certain page only at print time. Using complex macros, you can manipulate pages, but that is seldom satisfactory. Luckily, Word 2010 and later have a key feature called the Navigation Pane that will let you move logical sections of your document easily. You can structure a document so that each page is a logical section, using the built-in Heading Styles. See Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly.

See also:

	Word Doesn't Know What a Page Is! by Daiya Miller Although written for Word for the Mac, it applies to all versions of Word as far as the concepts and limitations go.
	Save Yourself Hours of Time Using Outline View by Dave Rado - another approach if you do not want to use the Navigation Pane

Overview:

Warning: Earlier versions of Word have a feature similar to the Navigation Pane called the Document Map. Do not use that tool to reorganize a document. Doing so may result in document corruption. You can use Outline View in earlier versions to move parts of a document delimited by heading styles.

The Navigation Pane is what pops up when you press Ctrl+F for Find, except it is then in the found text mode rather than the headings mode. You can click the tab for headings if the Navigation Pane is displayed, or you can turn it on using the View Tab.

Navigation Pane Tabs in Word 2010

Later versions use the words instead of icons:

Headings | Pages | Results

To use this feature to move pages, you must start each page with one of the built-in headings.

1. The easiest way to do this is to modify one of the heading styles to have the paragraph formatting of page-break-before.
2. I suggest using Heading 1 to begin each page.
3. You can apply Heading 1 to a paragraph by selecting it in the Quick Styles on the Home Tab or using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+1. (Heading 1 - Heading 3 have these shortcuts built in. You can add them for all the heading styles.)

What this does is give a Word logical container for your page.

To move a page (logical section) that starts with Heading 1

1. The Navigation Pane must be displayed and on the Headings Tab. See above.
2. Click on the page heading in the Navigation Pane you want to move.
3. Holding the mouse button down, move the heading up or down in the Navigation Pane. You will be moving everything between the selected heading and the next heading of that level.
4. Warning, if you move to the right, you will be demoting your heading. If you started with a Heading 2, moving to the left will promote it to Heading 1.