Acrobat Level 1

Course Overview

You have probably created documents using word processing and other office productivity applications, and have shared those documents with others. You've most likely shared printed copies of your documents with others, and may have shared documents electronically be emailing them as well. This course will enable delegates to share electronic versions of documents with others in a format that will allow them to view, print, and even review the content, even if they don't have the original software you used to create the file. In this course, delegates will use Adobe Acrobat to convert documents to PDF files, and will customize those PDF files for your needs and the needs of the reader.

Prerequisites

• Good PC skills and working knowledge of any page layout application

Objectives

Delegates will be able to :

• Create and modify PDF documents using Acrobat
• Design and use electronic forms
• Secure your PDF document
• Organise and share your PDF documents in a business environment

Training Options

• Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Scheduled public course at one of our training venues

Whats Included

• 12 Months telephone and email support
• Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
• Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
• Relaxed refreshment area at our training room
• Lunch (When at our training venue)
• Refreshments (When at our training venue)
• 1 delegate per computer

Course Content
Introduction to Acrobat

• What is Adobe Acrobat?
• Getting to know Adobe Acrobat
• Understanding the differences between the Adobe Acrobat suite of applications
• Recognising a PDF file
• Opening and closing Adobe Acrobat
• The zoom function

Lesson 2: Creating PDF files

• Creating a PDF from an authoring application (Microsoft Word)
• Creating a PostScript file
• Transferring a PostScript file into PDF format
• Creating a PDF file from a website
• Viewing a PDF you have created

Lesson 3 : Modifying PDF Files

• Adding navigation tools
• Adding and removing thumbnails from a PDF file
• Creating, viewing, editing and deleting articles
• Adding and using bookmarks to link to another file
• Linking to a website, modifying and deleting links
• Creating and modifying destinations
• Creating non-PDF files: RTF format, to an image file
• Adding multimedia elements to a PDF file e.g. Sound, movie clip
• Adding a header or footer into a PDF
• Adding a watermark / background

Annotating PDF Files

• Creating, modifying and deleting comments and notes in a PDF file
• Highlighting a toolbar for comments on a PDF
• Removing a highlight from text
• Using the edit text options
• Using the pencil tool to select text for comments
• Sharing comments online
• Adding comments through a web browser

Designing and Using electronic forms

• Creating a web ready email response form
• Adding a text field to a form
• Adding, modifying and deleting buttons on forms
• Adding controls to forms e.g. Tick box, radio button, drop down list and list box
• Adding a customised button to a form
• Adding stamps to a PDF document and creating customised stamps

Indexing PDF files

• Preparing files before indexing
• Creating an index using PDF files
• Updating or altering an Index

Securing PDF files

• Adding, modifying and removing

Optimising & distributing PDF files

• Optimising files
• Distributing PDF files