Duration

2 days

Course Overview

Essential Guide to Working with Acrobat is a 2 days course that teaches you the fundamentals of Adobe Acrobat X Professional. Learn how to efficiently manages and enhances PDF documents in your daily work. It also provides essentials knowledge and skills to fully optimise and deliver highly professional PDF Communications. Participant will be exposed to techniques and steps on how to create high-impact communications, collaborate more easily, and streamline reviews.

Course Objective

After attending the course, participant will be able to:

use Acrobat tools more efficiently and effectively while getting familiar with the Acrobat interface.
combine multiple files into a single, professional-looking PDF document
repurpose PDF content to other file format by exporting to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other images file.
enhance PDF file by adding the running header and footer, background and watermark.
initiate a PDF review and participate in the process using Acrobat commenting tools
customise settings to create PDF document that suit the output needs

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Clerical personnel, Admin Executive, Account Executive, Managers, Supervisors, Designers or anyone who are receiving and distributing softcopy documents.

PRE-REQUISITES

Participants should be comfortable carrying out general operations of computers such as opening and saving files.

DAY 2

9:00am

GETTING STARTED

Opening documents and moving them around

Working with the toolbars

Working with the panels

Customizing the toolbar with Quick Tools

Using the Pages panel to navigate

Rotating pages

Changing the viewing options

Searching a PDF and working with the Search panel

EXTRACTING AND CONVERTING CONTENT

Exporting text

Exporting images

Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Word

Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Excel

Recognizing text in a scanned PDF

Reviewing and correcting OCR suspects

10:30am

BREAK

10:45am

CREATING PDFS

Creating PDFs from Microsoft Office applications

Creating PDFs from Creative Suite applications

Creating PDFs from within Acrobat Pro

Creating PDFs from a web site

Creating PDFs from the clipboard

ENHANCING PDF DOCUMENT

Adding watermarks, background, page number, headers and footers and bookmarks

Adding multimedia files

1:00pm

LUNCH

2:00pm

COMBINING FILES IN PDF PORTFOLIOS

Working with portfolios

Creating portfolios

Customizing portfolios

Optimizing backward compatibility

EDITING PDF CONTENT

Editing and Adding text

Editing images and graphics

Cropping pages and documents

3:30pm

BREAK

3:45pm

COMBINING AND REARRANGING PDFS

Extracting pages

Splitting a PDF into multiple files

Inserting pages from files and other sources

Moving, copying, and replacing pages

Combining PDFs

USING ACROBAT IN A REVIEW CYCLE

About the review process

Adding comments to a PDF document

Working with comments

Initiating a shared review

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.