Acrobat

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 is increasingly used as the format of choice for sending pre-press documents to remote print service providers. Adobe Acrobat offers one of the best ways of publishing and distributing documents of any kind on a corporate intranet, the World Wide Web, E-Mail or CD-ROM.  Convert static documents to interactive ones by creating hyperlinks and bookmarks to allow navigation within a document, between documents, and the web. 

COURSE CONTENT

INTRODUCING 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

READINGAND 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
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USING ACROBAT 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
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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