Basic
Topic-Level Outline
Days: 1
Prerequisites: Windows 7: Basic or equivalent experience
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: The Acrobat environment
A-1: Identifying the benefits of PDF documents
A-2: Exploring the Acrobat environment
A-3: Viewing and navigating a PDF document
Topic B: Advanced navigation
B-1: Navigating with bookmarks
B-2: Navigating with links
B-3: Using split view
Topic C: Finding text
C-1: Finding text by using the Find toolbar
C-2: Finding text by using the Search PDF window
C-3: Finding text by using OCR
Topic D: Setting preferences
D-1: Setting Acrobat application preferences
Unit 2: Creating PDF documents
Topic A: Printing to PDF from any application
A-1: Creating a PDF file by using the Print command
Topic B: Acrobat PDFMaker
B-1: Converting a Word document into a PDF file
B-2: Converting an Excel spreadsheet into a PDF file
B-3: Converting a PowerPoint presentation into a PDF file
B-4: Converting a web page into a PDF file
Topic C: The Create PDF commands
C-1: Combining multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio
C-2: Managing PDF Portfolios
C-3: Creating a PDF document from a Web page
C-4: Discussing other Creative Suite applications
Topic D: Saving to the Cloud
D-1: (OPTIONAL) Saving a PDF file to Acrobat.com
Unit 3: Editing text, images, and page elements
Topic A: Editing text and images
A-1: Editing and formatting text in a PDF document
A-2: Editing images in a PDF document
Topic B: Editing page design
B-1: Inserting headers and footers
B-2: Inserting a watermark and background
B-3: Synchronizing page numbering
Unit 4: Modifying PDF documents
Topic A: Moving document pages
A-1: Moving pages within a PDF document
A-2: Moving pages between PDF documents
Topic B: Inserting and manipulating pages
B-1: Editing pages in a PDF document
Topic C: Moving PDF content to other programs
C-1: Copying an image to another program
Topic D: Optimizing PDF file size
D-1: Optimizing a PDF file
D-2: Reducing file size
Unit 5: Document navigation tools
Topic A: Working with bookmarks
A-1: Testing automatically generated bookmarks
A-2: Adding a bookmark
A-3: Adding bookmarks from selected text
A-4: Modifying bookmark destinations
A-5: Arranging bookmarks
A-6: Formatting bookmarks
Topic B: Working with links
B-1: Creating a link
B-2: Resizing and aligning links
B-3: Formatting text to look like a link
B-4: Creating links from selected text
Unit 6: Document security
Topic A: Password protection
A-1: Setting a Document Open password
A-2: Setting a Permissions password
Topic B: Digital signatures
B-1: Creating a digital ID
B-2: Exporting a digital ID certificate file
B-3: Digitally signing a PDF document
B-4: Validating a signed document
B-5: Certifying a PDF document
Topic C: Encryption certification and security envelopes
C-1: Encrypting a PDF file by using a certificate
C-2: Creating a security envelope
Topic D: Electronic Signatures
D-1: Electronically initialing and signing a document
D-2: (OPTIONAL) Using EchoSign
Unit 7: Document review techniques
Topic A: Document reviews
A-1: Adding notes
A-2: Specifying the reviewer’s author name
A-3: Adding drawing markups
A-4: Adding text markups
A-5: Adding a stamp
Topic B: Managing comments and markups
B-1: Exporting comments and markups
B-2: Importing comments from multiple reviewers
B-3: Navigating comments from multiple reviewers
B-4: Creating a comment summary PDF file
Topic C: Shared Reviews
C-1: (OPTIONAL) Starting a shared review
C-2: (OPTIONAL) Participating in a shared review