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Fast Track to Adobe Acrobat XI

Course Prerequisites

To successfully complete this course, you should know how to:

• Use the mouse, standard menus and commands
• How to open, save and close files

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to perform the following tasks:

• Effeciently create optimized PDF files from Microsoft Office documents
• Add multimedia to a PDF
• Create PDF Portfolios!
• Secure a PDF with passwords
• Effectively use Digital Signatures
• Use Acrobat in a Review Cycle
• Redact content from a PDF
• Preflight PDF files for professional printing

Course Outline

Introducing Adobe Acrobat X

• About the Acrobat family of products
• Looking at the work area
• Viewing content
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Getting Help

Exploring the Work Area

• Opening a PDF file
• Working with the toolbars
• Working with task panes
• Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
• Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Creating Adobe PDF Files

• Using the Create Command
• Using Drag & Drop
• Using PDFMaker
• Using the Print command
• Optimizing your PDF
• Scanning a document
• Converting email to PDF
• Converting web pages to 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
• Introduction to accessibility
• Sharing PDF files

Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files

• Creating PDF from MS Word
• Creating PDF from MS Excel
• Creating PDF from Powerpoint
• Creating PDF from Internet Explorer
• Extracting data from PDF to Microsoft office
• Converting PDF files to Microsoft Office files

Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Moving Pages
• Editing content
• Renumbering pages
• Editing links
• Adding bookmarks
• Adding Multimedia
• Editing text
• Extracting text and images

Combining files in PDF Portfolios

• Creating a portfolio
• Customizing a portfolio
• Sharing a portfolio
• Searching a portfolio

Adding Signatures and Security

• Viewing documents in Protected Mode
• Adding security
• Working with Digital Signatures
• Certifying PDF files

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• Adding Comments
• Working with comments
• Initiating a shared review
• Using live collaboration

Working with Forms

• Converting PDF files to forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Making your forms accessible
• Using FORMSCENTRAL

Using Actions

• About actions
• Using predefined actions
• Creating an action
• Sharing actions

Using the Legal Features

• Using Bates numbering
• Redacting content

Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Creating files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files
• Working with transparency
• Working with color management
• Previewing your print job