Acrobat Pro Essential Training
2h 13mIntermediate2023-11-27
Authors

Garrick Chow
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
This comprehensive course covers the most important things you need to know to create, edit, format, and share PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Instructor Garrick Chow explains the Portable Document Format (PDF) and compares features in Acrobat Pro with features in Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Reader. He shows you how to create PDFs using source material from Microsoft Office, images, and scans. Garrick covers how to edit and combine PDFs. He demonstrates how to create fillable forms, gather comments, and review PDFs. Garrick also goes over how to protect PDFs by restricting printing and preventing changes.
Skills covered
PDF ManagementAdobe AcrobatAdobeEssential TrainingBusiness Software and Tools
Concepts
Introduction
- Enhance your PDFs with Acrobat
- Using the new Acrobat interface
- Windows interface differences
About Acrobat and PDFs
- About the Portable Document Format
- Compare Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard
- Compare Acrobat Pro and Adobe Reader DC
The Acrobat Workspace
- Get to know the interface
- Page display, document navigation, and magnification
Searching PDFs
- Find text
- Use advanced Search
Creating PDFs
- Create PDFs from Office applications
- Print to PDF
- Create PDFs from text and image files
- Convert a scan to searchable text
- Use Acrobat Mobile
Editing PDF Content
- Edit text and graphics
- Add links
- Create bookmarks
Combining and Modifying PDF Pages
- Combine multiple PDFs
- Insert pages
- Replace pages
- Change page order
- Rotate pages
- Extract pages
- Crop pages
- Split a document
- Add headers and footers
- Add a watermark
Exporting to Other Formats
- Export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Export images
Commenting and Reviewing
- Add sticky notes and other annotations
- Use email reviews
- Manage and summarize comments
- Cloud sharing
Fillable Forms
- Understand what PDF forms can do
- Use the Form Wizard
- Create fields and buttons
Protecting PDF Content
- Restrict editing and printing
- Redact content
Ensuring Accessibility
- Understand the important of accessibility
- Reflow text and read aloud
- Check accessibility
Conclusion
- Continue learning about Acrobat and PDFs