751256Acrobat X Complete Training 2 Days
Acrobat Training Course Synopsis
Adobe Acrobat enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. This class will enable you to prepare and edit PDF documents, as well as add the interactive features which have made Acrobat so successful in the business environment today.
What You Will Learn in This Acrobat Training Course
- Creating Adobe PDF Files
- Reducing File Size
- Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents
- Combining Files in PDF Portfolios
- Adding Signatures and Security
- Working with Forms in Acrobat
- Using Legal Features
- Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
Lesson 1 - Introducing Adobe Acrobat
- About PDF
- About Adobe Acrobat
- About Adobe Reader
- Using PDF on the web
- Opening a PDF file
- Working with the toolbars
- Working with task panes
- Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
- Navigating PDF documents
- Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
- Viewing PDF files in Read mode
- Designing documents for online viewing
- Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
- Creating a custom tool set
Lesson 2 - 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
Lesson 3 - Creating Adobe PDF Files
- About creating Adobe PDF files
- Using the Create command
- Dragging and dropping 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
Lesson 4 - Reading and Working with PDF Files
- Changing the opening view
- About the onscreen display
- Reading PDF documents
- 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
Lesson 5 - 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 spreadsheets
Lesson 6 - 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 and metadata
Lesson 7 - Combining Files in PDF Portfolios
- About PDF Portfolios
- Creating a PDF Portfolio
- Customizing your PDF Portfolio
- Sharing your PDF Portfolio
- Searching a PDF Portfolio
Lesson 8 - Adding Signatures and Security
- Getting started
- Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
- About security
- Viewing security settings
- Adding security to PDF files
- About digital signatures
- Creating digital signatures
- Signing a document digitally
- Modifying signed documents
- Certifying PDF files
- Signing certified documents
- Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
Lesson 9 - Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
- About the review process
- Getting started
- Adding comments to a PDF document
- Working with comments
- Initiating a shared review
- Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration
Lesson 10 - Working with Forms in Acrobat
- Getting started
- Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
- Adding form fields
- Distributing forms
- Collecting form data
- Working with form data
- Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
Lesson 11 - Using Actions
- About Actions
- Using Predefined Actions
- Creating an Action
- Sharing Actions
Lesson 12 - Using the Legal Features
- Legal Features in Adobe Acrobat
- About Bates Numbering and Redaction
- Apply Bates Numbering
- Defining Bates Numbering
- Applying Redaction
- Changing the Appearance of Redaction
- Searching Text for Redaction
- Assembling PDF Documents
- Marking Redaction across Multiple Pages
Lesson 13 - Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
- Creating PDF Files for Print and Prepress
- Preflighting Files (Acrobat Pro)
- Working with Transparency (Acrobat Pro)
- Setting Up Color Managment
- Previewing your Print Job (Acrobat Pro)
- Advanced Printing Controls