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Adobe Acrobat XI Introduction Masterclass 2 Day - London
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Intermediate
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£450 + 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 XI 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.
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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
- Use the touch-up text tool
- Change properties
- Repurpose Export data
- Save out images
- Document wide extraction
- Conversion options
Secure your PDF file- 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 at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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Client Reviews
"A very enjoyable experience."
Gary Gilbert, Marshall Cavendish, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
"A superbly delivered course with just the right number of trainees. Above all, excellent equipment and clear visual aids. Superior to any course I've yet attended. You have captured all training aspects in the right detail."
Robin Gould, TSO Parliamentary Press , Acrobat - 1 Day Intermediate
"Overall a very well presented course and I hope to be back for other courses."
Shazad Khan, The Stationary Office, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
"Really enjoyed the day, training was fun as well as educational. Staff were really friendly and food and rereshments were great. "
Jez Williams, Total UK, Acrobat for Creating Rich Media PDFs - 1 Day Introduction
"Very good relaxed but productive day."
Suzy Link, Montagu Evans LLP, Acrobat - 1 Day Essentials
"Great trainer, great content and great practical exercises."
Amanda Cook, VMWare, Adobe Video Masterclass - 5 Day Introduction
"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. "
Jackie Shirley, Dept for Business Innovation and Skills, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
"A very enjoyable, informative course in a relaxed friendly environment"
Clare Beanland, Unilever, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
"Really really useful course. Very knowledgeable trainer who made the session relevant. Can't wait to start using my new skills!"
Claire Dossie, NHS, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
"An excellent course with very knowledgeable and helpful instructor allowing us to ask questions and work at our own pace. "
Jill Lessani, Hawkins, Acrobat - 1 Day Introduction
Over 15 years of providing certified Adobe Acrobat training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
An excellent use of everyones time as we were able to tailor the course topics to suit our specific needs - all with the able assistance of Donna who lead us through the day.
09/12/2024
4/5 Stars
Thanks for bespoking the course for us
20/02/2024
5/5 Stars
Overall pleased with the course and how it was adapted to our specific needs.
20/02/2024
5/5 Stars
Donna was really flexible and helpful and showed me everything I needed to know.
13/12/2023
5/5 Stars
I found the training course very comprehensive and helpful.
08/12/2022
4/5 Stars
The course was very informative and the instructor was great.
12/10/2022
5/5 Stars
Well delivered and very in depth
18/08/2022
5/5 Stars
The training has helped me gain confidence and knowledge in producing and combining pdf documents.
17/08/2022
5/5 Stars
Good
03/05/2022
5/5 Stars
it was an easy process from arranging the course to course delivery. I liked he fact that the course trainer actually spoke to me to understand our requirements and was very accommodating.
21/07/2020
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the London Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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