Thanks. I wasn't sure if this counted as cross posting initially though I will keep that in mind in future.

The original macro does correctly identify the 'blank pages' (in this case, page 1,5)

What I was hoping to do is tweak the code so that rather than it stating what the blank pages are in a message box, it deletes them instead.

since the numbers returned "1,5" are stored as a string in the vba code, how do I store these variables as pagenumbers instead?

thanks