Adobe Acrobat Intro

This 1 day Introduction to Adobe Acrobat training course introduces students to the basics of Acrobat X and XI Pro.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the windows interface would be required. No experience of Adobe Acrobat is necessary.

Benefits

Adobe Acrobat offers one of the best ways of

• publishing and distributing documents of any kind on a corporate intranet, the World Wide Web, or E-Mail 
• Converting  static documents to interactive ones by creating hyperlinks and bookmarks to allow navigation within a document, between documents, and the web. 

Course Content

Introduction Adobe Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• About Adobe Reader
• Adobe PDF on the web
• A first look at the work area
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Viewing PDF files in Read mode
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Getting help 

Exploring The Work Area

• Opening a PDF file
• Working with the toolbars
• Working with task panes
• Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
• Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
• Navigating PDF documents

Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create command
• Dragging and ping files
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using PDFMaker
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Reducing file size
• About compression and resampling
• Scanning a paper document
• Making scanned text editable and searchable
• Converting email messages to PDF (Windows)
• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF

Reading And Working With PDF Files 

• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Working with accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features
• Sharing PDF files

Using Acrobate With Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• Getting started
• About Acrobat PDFMaker
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting Excel documents and starting a review
• Converting PowerPoint presentations
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Saving PDF files as Word documents
• Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheet

Enhancing And Editing PDF Documents

• Examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Renumbering pages
• Editing links
• Working with bookmarks
• Adding multimedia files
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Setting document properties