Deleting blank pages

Question

Just spent an hour+ on the phone with a product specialist regarding this problem. Never, ever should something so simple be so difficult...
This is what worked for me, and should for you, too. It is basically a blow-by-blow of what Peggy attempts to describe in her post--which in theory is separating an entire Pages document into individual "pages".
1. For ease of viewing, reduce view to 25-50%.
2. Go to View>Show Layout.
3. Go to View>Show Page Thumbnails.
4. Go to the blank page that you want to delete in the regular view screen. (For sake of my example, it is page 3 of a 5-page Pages doc.)
5. Start at bottom R of blank page and mouse-click-drag toward L top of page. This should highlight a blue bar along the top margin or a series of paragraph place holders.
6. Delete (and don't worry that all your text has separated from the layout of the rest of the doc or pulled up, the next step should remedy that.)
7. Go to Insert>Section Break. (Yes, it will add in the deleted page again.)
8. Next, go to page 2 (page preceding the page you want to delete, repeat highlighting click as per step 1.)
9. DO NOT press DELETE this time, but go directly to Insert>Section Break.
10. Now, click on your thumbnails view. Your page three should now stand alone in its own yellow box, meaning it is its own section.
11. With that blank page highlighted yellow, you can either delete or go to EDIT>Delete Pages. This should get rid of the blasted blank page.
12. Check the remainder of your doc to be sure no other pics or text have "disappeared". I've seen such postings, and it happened to me on the first pass.
CAVEAT! Check the remainder of your doc to make sure photos and text are still present WITH EACH STEP. In the first trial run of this fix-it, random pics toward the end of my doc were gone. Thankfully, I hadn't saved, so I quit out without saving, thus recovering what appeared to be lost.
Finally, it seems the default on this program should be that each individual page stands on its own. This same issue of lumping all the pages in one Pages doc. becomes more of a problem when you want to shuffle or work on layout, swapping out spreads, etc.

Answer 1

Can you describe a bit more - remember we know nothing except what you tell us
To see exactly what will be printed preview via this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference
a book must be 20 pages (10 sheets of paper) - you can not delete pages below that limit
to delete a page select it and use the delete page command
To add a photo or text to a page select the page and change the layout for that page (in the tool bar below the book)
Do these shots in the dark help?
LN