Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Introduction Masterclass 2 Day - Online
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Intermediate
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£395 + vat
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading document-publishing program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become an Acrobat power user. Get the edge as you build PDFs, design forms, gather data, and more.
We will guide you on everything from getting started by creating a simple PDF and controlling the Acrobat environment all the way up to distributing interactive forms to your coworkers and customers. With our help, you will become confident in using the advanced features of Adobe's flagship program to produce business-class documents that work perfectly on the web and in print.
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading document-publishing program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become an Acrobat power user. Get the edge as you build PDFs, design forms, gather data, and more.
We will guide you on everything from getting started by creating a simple PDF and controlling the Acrobat environment all the way up to distributing interactive forms to your coworkers and customers. With our help, you will become confident in using the advanced features of Adobe's flagship program to produce business-class documents that work perfectly on the web and in print.
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Acrobat DC Masterclass 2 Day
Course Details
This 2-day Masterclass course helps you gain an all-round view of Acrobat, including best practices for creating, combining, optimising, securing, and sharing PDF documents.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:- Access information in a PDF document
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Office programs and from web pages
- Combine and modify PDFs
- Add PDF navigation aids
- Work with multiple PDFs
- Review PDFs
- Generate PDF forms that include logic and input validation
- Collect and analyse form data
- Optimise PDFs with measures including image compression
- Protect PDFs with passwords and other security measures
Our goals are for you to gain a comprehensive understanding of how Acrobat is used to create, modify, protect, and optimise PDFs, and how you can collaborate with and gather data from your users.
This course can be taken in a single 2-day block or split into a 1-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 1-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for professionals from any field who plan to use Acrobat to create, edit, or distribute PDFs.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. Finally, you will need basic experience in using common office applications such as spreadsheets, word processors, and web browsers. -
Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Overview of Acrobat Family- Understanding the product line-up
- Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
- The PDF Maker
- Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links
- Powerpoint to PDF presentations
- HTML pages to PDF
- Create low and high quality PDFs
- Impact of resolution and font embedding
- PDF versioning
- Conversion options
- Selection mode
- Output control
- Embedded media settings
- Flash control
- Combine PDFs into single file
- Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
- Advantages of single files
- Advantages of PDF Portfolio
- PDF Portfolio deep dive
- Appending different media
- Customising Portfolio
- Home, index and list modes
- Upload to Acrobat.com
- Explore the organiser
- Favourite places
- Exploring metadata
- Network places
- New customised toolbars
- Reset workspace
- Navigating views and pages
- Keyboard shortcuts
Editing and repurposing- Use the touch-up text tool
- Change properties
- Repurpose Export data
- Save out images
- Document wide extraction
- Conversion options
- Different types of Acrobat security
- Security Policies
- Applying security and testing
- Password and permissions restrictions
- Removing security
- Acrobat security implications
- Check for file content
- Reduce image size and compression
- Edit font embedding and remove metadata
- Flatten forms fields, remove comments
- Hosted Adobe service
- Connect as repository
- Product overview
- Creating a user account
- Remote presentations
- Gaining control of users desktop
- Chat and communication pods
- Adobe Buzzword
- File Manager and uploading
- Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
- Examples of Form field recognition
- Understanding form field types
- Recycle fields across documents
- Repeating fields and form logic
- Naming fields and workflow considerations
- Form logic and validation
- Using simplified field notation
- Mandatory form entry and options
- Sending a forms workflow message
- Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
- Personal or workgroup form distribution
- Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
- Using the forms tracker
- Adobe Reader Extensions
- Collecting data and analysis
- Filtering and sorting results
- Response file and PDF Portfolio
- Merging older responses into current
- Exporting to CSV and XML
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Location Details
This course is provided as a remote online course with live training provided by our Web Specialist Trainer.
Accessing the live online course anywhere is easy and all you will need is:
- Computer with Acrobat DC and MS Office installed
- Separate screen or device for the shared video display
- Sound output via computer or headset
- Ideally a camera and microphone on the computer for remote contact
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
It is important to note this is not a classroom based training.
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Acrobat DC Masterclass 2 Day - Upcoming Online Course Dates
15 Jan - 16 Jan £395 + vat 31 Mar - 01 Apr £395 + vat 09 Jun - 10 Jun £395 + vat -
Client Reviews
"Overall a very well presented course and I hope to be back for other courses."
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"Really really useful course. Very knowledgeable trainer who made the session relevant. Can't wait to start using my new skills!"
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"Great trainer, great content and great practical exercises."
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Robin Gould, TSO Parliamentary Press , Acrobat - 1 Day Intermediate
"Really enjoyed the course and picked up many useful tips for creating accessible PDFs. The trainer ensured that we understood everything and paced the course well. "
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