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Our Adobe Acrobat training courses are an ideal starting point to cover the basics needed to create, modify, review and output your documents.  The Acrobat DC Creating Forms course is aimed at those wanting to produce interactive forms for distribution via print or mobile.

We also provide training for older versions of Adobe Acrobat, just call for a course outline.

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Adobe Acrobat Introduction

1 day

This Adobe Acrobat Introduction course is designed to introduce delegates to Adobe Acrobat’s Portable Document Format (PDF) – the industry standard for electronic document exchange.  Learn how to convert documents into PDF format whilst maintaining page layout and preventing changes to documents, even if they are shared with others.  You will create, edit and combine PDF files, add navigation, optimise fonts and images to ensure a small file size and cross platform compatibility.

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What will you learn?

At the end of this Adobe Acrobat Introduction course, delegates will be able to:

  • Customise your work environment
  • Convert documents into a PDF and modify them
  • Work with multiple PDFs
  • Protect documents from printing or changes
  • Make large documents navigable using bookmarks and hyperlinks
  • Create forms for data collection

Audience?

Anyone needing to create, edit and distribute documents using this format.

Course Contents

Introduction

  • What is a PDF?
  • Acrobat DC and the document cloud
  • Explore the interface – Toolbars and Panels

Creating a PDF file

  • Printing to PDF from Microsoft Office
  • Creating a PDF from JPG files

Acrobat Basics

  • Moving through documents
  • Zooming in and out
  • View modes
  • Searching a document & indexes
  • Setting preferences
  • Customising the Tools panel and Toolbar

Navigation Controls

  • Using bookmarks & thumbnails
  • Work with Links
  • Define articles
  • Using articles for navigation
  • Page actions
  • Using links and buttons

Editing PDF Files

  • Add, Edit, Format text
  • Select, Add, Move graphics
  • Add, Edit Hyperlinks
  • Add Bookmark

Pages

  • Thumbnails
  • Insert, Delete, Extract, Rotate & Move pages
  • Headers and Footers
  • Page numbering
  • Watermarks
  • Cropping pages
  • Attaching Notes and Files to documents

Adding Multimedia

  • Insert Video and Audio

Annotations

  • Sticky Note and Highlighting text
  • Comments
  • Stamps

Working with Multiple PDF Documents

  • Combine multiple PDFs into one file
  • Combine into a Portfolio
  • Search multiple documents

Security

  • Document Security, Passwords and Permissions
  • Digitally sign a document
  • Redaction

PDF Forms

  • Create a basic form
  • Add form fields
  • Form properties

Distributing PDFs

  • Exporting to Microsoft Office
  • Optimising files - compacting
  • Managing for Print and Digital
  • Specifying how documents open
  • Embedding searchable information

Course Materials

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable.  These may be either paper based or in Adobe pdf format or a combination thereof.

Enliten IT reserves the right to modify course content and materials as required in the interests of continuous course improvement, at any time, without notification.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge of Acrobat is assumed.

Additional Information

NOTE: We only offer this Adobe Acrobat Introduction course on a private in-house basis. For pricing and availability just pick up the phone and call us on 0845 1085481.

Enliten IT reserves the right to modify course content and materials as required in the interests of continuous course improvement, at any time, without notification.

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