Course Description
In this course, students will learn the basics of creating PDF documents and modifying PDFs within Adobe Acrobat DC Pro. Students will access PDF documents and learn to navigate the interface, use tools, menus, navigation bars, as well as change preferences. Students will create PDFs by various methods and learn to combine PDFs. In addition, students will learn to navigate PDFs, search, create bookmarks and links, comment in a PDF, send for review, modify text and images, and work with pages. Students will also learn to optimize PDFs by reducing size, create and use actions, export PDFs to Word, Excel or RTF formats, redact content, and protect PDFs.
Instructor: Deb Uscilka
What am I going to get from this course?
- Access PDFs and Navigate the Interface
- Create PDFs
- Navigate PDFs
- Review PDFs and Add Comments
- Modify PDFs
- Optimize PDFs and Reduce File Size
- Export PDFs to other programs
- Protect PDFs
Prerequisites and Target Audience
What will students need to know or do before starting this course?
Who should take this course? Who should not?
Students who wish to understand the basics of how to create and edit PDFs in Acrobat Pro DC
Curriculum
Resource 1
Student Data Files
Lecture 2
Introducting Acrobat & PDFs
Lecture 3
Opening and Viewing PDFs
Lecture 4
Using Tools and the Menu Bar
Lecture 5
Using the Navigation Panels
Lecture 6
Changing Preferences
Lecture 7
Creating PDFs from Office
Lecture 8
Creating PDFs from Creative Cloud
Lecture 9
Creating PDFs from Browsers
Lecture 11
Combining PDFs
Module 4: Navigating PDFs
Lecture 13
Creating Bookmarks
Lecture 14
Creating Links
Lecture 15
Commenting on a PDF
Lecture 16
Sending for Review
Lecture 17
Editing Text and Images
Lecture 18
Cropping Images
Lecture 19
Adding, Updating, and Removing Headers and Footers
Lecture 20
Using Watermarks
Lecture 21
Rotating Pages
Lecture 22
Exracting Pages
Lecture 23
Deleting Pages
Lecture 24
Inserting Pages
Lecture 25
Replacing Pages
Module 7: Optimizing PDFs
Lecture 26
Reducing File Size
Lecture 27
Advanced Optimization
Lecture 29
Creating Actions
Lecture 30
Exporting to Word
Lecture 31
Exporting to Excel
Lecture 32
Exporting to Rich Text Format
Module 9: Protecting PDFs
Lecture 33
Redacting Content
Lecture 34
Protecting a PDF