Adobe Acrobat Pro Essentials

This Acrobat Professional course will enable delegates to share electronic versions of documents with others in a format that allows them to view, print, and even review the content, even if they don't have the original software that was used to create the file.

In this course, delegates will use Adobe Acrobat to convert documents to PDF files, and will customise PDF files for both their needs and the needs of the reader.

Prerequisites

Good PC skills and working knowledge of any page layout application

Objectives

• Create and modify PDF documents using Acrobat
• Design and use electronic forms
• Secure a PDF document
• Organise and share PDF documents in a business environment

What's Included

• Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
• Comprehensive course materials and exercises
• Telephone and Email Support
• Course Content

Introduction to Acrobat

• Examining initial screen
• Menu bar
• Toolbars. Showing and hiding toolbars
• Navigation panes
• Converting toolbars into a palette
• Adding and removing toolbar tools
• Setting preferences

Creating PDF Files

• Creating a PDF from Print Menu
• Create a PDF from an existing document, ie Word or Excel file
• Creating PDF from images
• Merging PDFs
• PDF Portfolios
• Convert Web Pages To PDF

Modifying PDF Files

• Adding navigation tools
• Thumbnails: adding and removing from a PDF file
• Articles: create, view, edit and delete
• Bookmarks: adding and using to link to another file
• Links: linking to a website, modifying and deleting
• Destinations: creating and modifying
• Creating non-PDF files: RTF format, to an image file
• Adding multimedia elements: sound, movie clip
• Add a header or footer into a PDF
• Add a watermark / background

Annotating PDF Files

• Comments and notes: create, modify and delete
• Highlighting toolbar for comments on a PDF
• Remove a highlight from text
• Text edit options
• Pencil tool to select text for comments
• Sharing comments online and adding comments through a web browser

Designing and Using Electronic Forms

• How to create a web ready email response form
• Add a text field to a form
• Buttons on forms: add, modify and delete a button placed on your form.
• Form controls: tick box, radio button, drop down list and list box
• Customised buttons
• Adding and customising Stamps

Indexing PDF Files

• Preparing your files before indexing
• Create an Index using your PDF files
• Update or alter an Index

Securing PDF Files

Adding, modifying and removing

Optimising & Distributing PDF Files

• Optimising files
• Distributing PDF files