• Sharing PDF files
• Working with comments
• Adding security to PDF files

• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
• Adding multimedia files
• Converting web pages to PDF

Getting to know the work area

• Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
• Working with Acrobat task buttons
• Working with the navigation pane
• Using Organizer

Introducing Adobe Acrobat X

• 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

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 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

Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
  
• About the onscreen display
  
• Reading, searching, and 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)

• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting Excel documents
  
• 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 and editing text
  
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
  
• Setting document properties and metadata

Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• About PDF Portfolios
  
• Creating and customizing a PDF Portfolio
  
• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
  
• Searching a PDF Portfolio

Adding signatures and security

• Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
• 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
  
• Using security envelopes

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• Adding comments to a PDF document
  
• Working with comments
  
• Initiating a shared reviewand live collaboration

Working with forms in Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
  
• Adding form fields
  
• Distributing forms
• Collecting and working with form data
  
• Calculating and validating numeric fields

Using Actions

• About actions
  
• Using predefined actions
  
• Creating and sharing an action
  

Using the legal features

• Legal features in Adobe Acrobat X
  
• About Bates numbering and redaction
  
• Applying/Defining/Editing Bates numbering
  
• Applying redactio
  
• 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
  

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