Method for operating page and electronic device thereof

In a device having a touch screen, the current page is presented if it is in an edit mode after checking if the current mode is in an edit mode or not, and a page indicator in a thumbnail mode regarding the entire page is indicated in an area separated from the current page. Page management can be easily done because arrangement or the like according to the movement of objects on the presented current page is applied to a thumbnail image corresponding to a page indicator.