About this Course

You may have used different applications to create documents for your own reference. However, you may now be required to share your files electronically by email, over a network, or on the web, so that recipients can view, print, and offer feedback. In this one day instructor led course, you will use Adobe® Acrobat® XI to make your information more portable, accessible, and useful to meet the needs of your target audience.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for office professionals who need to create and share PDF files and PDF Portfolios.

Prerequisites

Basic experience with computers and common Microsoft applications, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and web browser applications. 

Course Outline

Introducing Adobe Acrobat XI

• Viewing PDFs    
• Designing documents for online viewing

Exploring the Work Area

• Working with toolbars and task panes
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Navigating documents

Creating Adobe PDF Files

• Using the Create command
• Dragging and dropping files
• Converting and combining
• PDFMaker
• Compression and resampling
• Converting items to PDF

Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Views and display
• Reading and searching
• Printing
• Filling out PDF Forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Sharing

Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• Converting MS Office files to Adobe PDF
• Converting web pages to PDF
• Saving PDF files as Word documents
• Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets

Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Moving pages
• Editing and renumbering Adobe PDF Pages
• Editing links
• Creating Bookmarks
• Adding Multimedia files

Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• Creating, Customizing, Sharing and Searching your PDF Portfolio

Adding signatures and using Security

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• Adding and working with comments
• Initiating a shared review