Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - Beginner

Understand the portable document format (pdf), its ubiquity and history, and how Acrobat Reader, Standard DC, and Pro DC with document cloud enable viewing, sharing, and editing across applications.

Open the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC interface, load a PDF, and explore the welcome screen, navigation pane, Document Cloud, zoom, page display, and sharing options.

Customize toolbars in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC by adding or removing quick tools, using the customize quick tools dialog, and toggling toolbar items via the View menu.

Learn to customize the Acrobat environment by adjusting preferences, identity, and display settings; configure default zoom and single-page continuous view, accessibility options, and form tracking.

Learn how to create PDFs from Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel using the Adobe Acrobat PDF maker, adjust preferences, enable bookmarks, and set password and print restrictions.

Export a PDF from InDesign, a Creative Cloud app, using the PDF print preset for commercial printing. Include bleed marks, bookmarks, and compatibility; save a preset for future exports.

Learn to use Adobe Document Cloud to convert Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents to PDFs and back, using drag and drop in a browser with online tools.

Save a pdf in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to local computer, document cloud, or accounts like Google Drive, OneDrive, and SharePoint, with options to reduce file size and restrict editing.

Combine multiple documents into a single pdf by adding files from folders, selecting non-adjacent items with control-click, and using thumbnails to organize pages while preserving native formats.

Master Adobe Acrobat Pro DC search and find tools to locate and replace text across a single document or a folder, with options like case sensitive, stemming, and proximity.

Create and manage bookmarks in Acrobat to jump to exact text, organize them hierarchically as subordinates, and navigate large documents by selecting content, adding, deleting, and generating bookmarks.

Create visible pdf links by drawing hit areas, then assign go to page, open file, or open web actions with visible rectangles and highlights.

Learn to comment on PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC by using comments, highlights, strikethroughs, insertions, and dynamic stamps for collaborative reviews with your team.

Apply the share for comments feature to quickly send documents for review using the document cloud, inviting commenters by email, setting deadlines, and tracking replies and comments.

Learn to edit text and images in PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC’s edit PDF tools, including replacing images, adding text, and adjusting fonts and formatting.

Master cropping images in a PDF by using the Edit PDF tool, selecting the image with handles, applying crop, and repositioning the edited image on the page.

Add, update, and remove headers and footers in a PDF with page numbers and dates, adjust fonts and colors, set page ranges, preview results, and save reusable settings for consistency.

Learn to add and manage watermarks in PDFs with Acrobat Pro DC, applying text or image marks to page ranges indicate a draft, and adjust font, size, rotation, and opacity.

Learn to organize pages in a pdf by rearranging thumbnails, rotating orientation, deleting unwanted pages, and adding new pages using the organize pages tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

Learn how to extract selected pages from a pdf using the organize pages tool, choosing to delete them from the original or save them as separate files.

Insert pages into a document using the organize pages tool, selecting from file, placing after page three, and removing duplicates to finalize the travel newsletter.

Replace the original pages with the updated content by converting the Word document to a pdf, saving it as modified, and using organize pages to replace the targeted pages.

Learn to reduce pdf file size in adobe acrobat pro dc using reduce size options, with results from megabytes to kilobytes and notes on compatibility and font or image quality.

Master advanced optimization in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to reduce PDF size by adjusting image density, compression, font embedding, and audit space usage for fast web view.

Learn to automate Acrobat tasks with actions and the action wizard, combining commands to optimize for web and mobile, embed fonts, and save new files.

Create custom actions in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC with the action wizard to automate watermarking and saving pdfs. Manage steps, presets, and internet actions for efficiency.

Export PDFs to Microsoft Word via file or tools export, choosing Word or Word 97-2003 format. Adjust settings for flowing text, images, comments, and OCR language.

Export your pdf to excel to convert tables into editable spreadsheets. Switch between one worksheet per page or a single sheet, use text recognition, and save as xlsx.

Export PDFs to rich text format and other formats in Acrobat Pro DC, using the formats feature to retain layout, include images, and keep text editable in Word and PowerPoint.

Learn how to redact text and images in Adobe Acrobat to protect documents, sanitize metadata, and apply redactions with search and overlay options.

Learn to protect PDFs in Adobe Acrobat using password security, certificate security with digital IDs, and redaction, while managing encryption and security properties.

Explore the stylize this pdf feature to apply themes and personalize your pdfs. The tool sends documents to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express, enabling AI-assisted theme-based edits and templates.

Edit a PDF in Adobe Express in a browser, remove logo backgrounds, adjust text and colors with contextual options, and leverage AI features with Creative Cloud for consistent design.

Harness the Adobe AI assistant in Acrobat Pro DC to summarize documents, answer questions, and extract key points with page-referenced insights, processed via Adobe Cloud.

Access the stamps palette quickly from the toolbar via the free form drawing tool to add stamps to forms, improving efficiency and avoiding long navigation.