Word: Only save individual pages - is that possible?

In the word processing program MS Word there is no direct provision for saving individual pages. How you can achieve this goal without much effort, read in the following instructions.

Concentration please - save extracts from Word documents with just a few clicks

Simply copying a selected page and pasting it into a new, blank document does not work for most Word documents. With this action, the page layout and assigned styles are lost. To avoid this, do the following:

• For security reasons, first save your entire file under »File« → »Save As« under a new name, for example file-kopie.docx
• Then go to the page (or pages) you want to save individually. Select the content of this page (s). The quickest way to do this is to click the start and end of the selected text section with the left mouse button while holding down the Shift key
• Copy the text section to the clipboard with [Ctrl + C].
• Now mark the entire text with [Ctrl + A] and delete the entire content with a click on [Del]. You now have a blank page, but any headers or footers and the print format template for your file still exist.
• Now paste the contents of the clipboard with [Ctrl + V] and save the desired page (or pages) under a new name, for example file-page7.docx.

Even faster - save a single page from Word documents as a PDF

If you no longer want to edit the individually saved pages, you can easily save them as a PDF file:

• First click on the menu item »File« and then on »Save as«. Choose the location where you want to save the new file.
• Enter the file name in the field provided and select the entry PDF in the drop-down menu »File type«.
• A new window opens in which you click on the "Options" field.
• In a new window you can then select under "Page area" which pages should be saved, for example only pages 3-5. Confirm your entry with "OK".
• The settings window is closed and you only have to click on "Save" in the "Save As" dialog box. You will then find a PDF file with one or more pages from your original file at the specified location.

This practical tip is based on Word 2013, but can also be carried out in the immediate previous versions (2010, 2007). However, working with Word is much faster if you work with styles. You can find instructions on how to do this in the practical tip "Create your own style sheets - so it'll work"