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Adobe Acrobat (Standard/Professional)

Discover the amazing features this tool has to offer in combining, collating and editing documents and the forms, markups and redaction techniques available.

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Course overview

Duration

1 day (6.5 hours)

Overview

This Adobe Acrobat course looks at the powerful features of the tool quite often overlooked. 

The course requires the use of either the Standard or Professional versions of Acrobat as the free Acrobat Reader only has limited functionality.

Learn how to combine documents into a single file, edit and mark up PDFs, compare documents, redact data from documents and create fillable forms.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Create PDFs from other tools
  • Set security
  • Collate and combine files into a single PDF
  • Edit PDF files
  • Complete and sign documents
  • Create fillable forms
  • Mark up PDF documents
  • Compare files
  • Redact data

Content

Creating PDFs
  • Building PDF documents from Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Setting PDF options for print, image quality and security
Working in Acrobat
  • Home, Tools and Document Views
  • Using the Navigation Panel and Pane
  • Floating toolbar and Contextual menus
Collating and Combining Files
  • Combining multiple files into a single PDF
  • Adding extra files
  • Deleting pages and reorganising pages
Editing Files
  • Editing text and graphics
  • Adding text and images
  • Adding headers and footers, watermarks and backgrounds
Adding Links
  • Adding manual links
  • Automatic links
Completing and signing documents
  • Using fill and sign to complete forms
  • Adding signatures
Creating Fillable and Signable Forms
  • Prepare a form
  • Autodetect fillable fields
  • Add manual fillable fields
  • Adding drop downs, check boxes, etc.
  • Naming fields
  • Setting field properties
  • Previewing the form
Marking Up Documents
  • Marking up changes
  • Using sticky notes
  • Using the highlighter pen
  • Adding stamps
  • Attaching documents and audio
  • Replying to comments
Comparing Files
  • Selecting settings
  • Comparison report
  • Reviewing differences
  • Using the changes pane
Redacting Data (Acrobat Professional only)
  • Setting redaction options
  • Redacting chosen text
  • Searching and redacting words, phrases or patterns
  • Redacting whole pages
  • Applying redaction

Testimonials

“As always some tips to learn even if you know a lot already. Splitting the course is a good approach for me; as each session lasted 1h30, this allows me to keep concentrated even working from home. All perfect; again thank you to Susan, who is a clever trainer, whatever the training is about. Really amazing to see her level of knowledge about so many different apps.”

Patrick Delayen – Tech Support Group Leader, Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd

“100%, very handy to learn, as I have used Acrobat for only very basic stuff but thanks to the course I am able to do a bit more. It was well prepared so there were no issues during the training. I really enjoyed it and can already see how I’ll use these features in my work.” 

Veronika Novotna – Sales and Service Administrator, Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd

“I learnt new functions of Acrobat, such as creating a form and adding comments. I had self-taught the basics, but it was very useful to see these demonstrated properly. Once I had two screens set up, virtual training was much easier than gathering in a meeting room. It was clear, friendly, and well delivered.”

Yuko Casey – Executive Assistant, Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd

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