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Getting Around Inside Acrobat / A Tour of the Interface pt. 2

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The other thing that I wanted to mention is something called Navigation Panels here inside Acrobat. Over on the left-hand side you'll see a column of icons, we have some icons here sort of towards the top left if you will and then down in the bottom left as well. So what I could do is I could Click on these icons here and open up these fellows here over on the left, these guys are called Navigation Panels and there's lots and lots of Navigation Panels here inside Acrobat. And of course what I could do is I could click on these different icons to open up the different Navigation Panels. So here I'm on signatures, we have bookmarks, I can see right up at the top there. We have another one called Pages, there's lots and lots of these to work with. As a matter of fact sort of like the Toolbars I can go all the way up to the View Menu and then down to Navigation Panels and I get a full list of the Navigation Panels that are available to us here inside Acrobat. For example I might decide to open up one called Articles. Now sometimes these Navigation Panels float like my Articles and Articles is also grouped with another Navigation Panel called destinations there. Now most of these Navigation Panels, Destinations and my Signatures and my Bookmarks for example, their all coming up empty, there's nothing in them because we haven't actually done anything yet. But that's the idea anyway behind Navigation Panels and I'm going to close out of my Destination and my Articles Panel here just by clicking on the X in the top corner. The other thing that I wanted to mention is the divider that separates the Navigation Panels from the main document, you'll notice there's a little gripper spot there which would allow me to expand and contract the size of the Navigation Panel, something like that. Now if I want to get rid of this Bookmark Navigation Panel for example obviously the Navigation Panels that are locked to the left-hand side here, its this little Arrow Icon here, I can just click on that and that collapses everything down. Do that one more time for you here. I'll click on Bookmarks here. I could click on this guy which will collapse him right down or you know I could click back on the Icon that I originally clicked on to open the Bookmark Panel, something like that. OK great, so there's your Navigation Panels, hopefully no big deal, the only other thing that I wanted to mention, just a couple of quick loose ends really, is underneath the Edit Menu we have a spellchecker that's built into Acrobat. So you can certainly make use of that here. I'm not actually going to use it here, I'm just more pointing it out for you. We also have a Find as well which is really great if I want to search for Content inside my PDF File. OK, great. The only other thing I wanted to mention is way up underneath my Window Menu I have an option called New Window which is really kind of a neat thing that I can do here, I can actually create a second Acrobat Window for my document, something like this. So you may want to do that if you wanted a second window for different zoom settings, something like that, we'll take a look at that a little bit later on, that sort of thing. Anyway there you go, there's sort of a quick tour of the Acrobat Interface.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Acrobat 9
Author: Geoff Blake
SKU: 33985
ISBN: 1-935320-40-8
Release Date: 2009-04-10
Duration: 7 hrs / 106 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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