Acrobat X Fundamentals
Class timetable | Course outline
Course Description
Acrobat X Fundamentals is a hands-on course where you will learn to create, edit, combine, secure and share Adobe PDF documents before moving onto more advanced features, such as the collaboration tools, and creating PDF forms.
Target Audience
Individuals who need to prepare PDF documents. No prior experience of Acrobat is required.
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Acrobat Fundamentals Class Timetable
| Chicago | Feb 27 - 28 ! | Register |
| Los Angeles | Mar 29 - 30 ! | Register |
| Chicago | Apr 9 - 10 ! | Register |
| Los Angeles | May 24 - 25 | Register |
| Chicago | Jun 4 - 5 | Register |
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Introducing Adobe Acrobat X
- About Adobe PDF
- About Adobe Acrobat
- 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
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 PDF 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
- Inserting multimedia files
- 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
- 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
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
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
Combining Files in PDF Portfolios
- About PDF Portfolios
- Creating a PDF Portfolio
- Customizing your PDF Portfolio
- Sharing your PDF Portfolio
- Searching a PDF Portfolio
Adding Signatures and Security
- 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
Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
- About the review process
- Adding comments to a PDF document
- Working with comments
- Initiating a shared review
- Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration
Working with Forms in Acrobat
- 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
Using Actions
- About actions
- Using predefined actions
- Creating an action
- Sharing actions
Using the Legal Features (Optional)
- Legal features in Adobe Acrobat X
- About Bates numbering and redaction
- Applying Bates numbering
- Defining Bates numbering
- Editing Bates numbering
- Applying redaction
- Changing the appearance of redactions
- Searching text for redaction
- Assembling PDF documents
- Marking redactions across multiple pages
Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
- Creating PDF files for print and prepress
- Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
- Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
- Setting up color management
- Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
- Advanced printing controls
What's included
Adobe Acrobat Training Manual
Adobe Certificate of Course Completion
6 Months FREE Repeat Policy
2 AMC Movie Vouchers
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