Getting Around Inside Acrobat / Customizing the Interface pt. 1
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Alright. Now next up we'll have a look at Customizing the Acrobat Interface. I'll start off with the Toolbars here. What I can do is rearrange and organize the way that the Toolbars are set-up at the top of the screen here. So I'm going to go an open up another Toolbar here. I'm just going to go View and then all the way down to Toolbars and I'll open up Advanced Editing here. Now what I could do is I could have the Advanced Editing Toolbar just sort of Floating inside the Acrobat Interface, something like this and I'm just dragging it around here just by pulling on this Title Bar if you will at the top of the Toolbar there. Now that's fine but the other thing that I could do is I could take this Toolbar and Dock it or Lock it to the top of the Interface here. All I would do is I would grab this Title Bar here and Drag it straight up into the Interface here and let go and that locks it into the top area of my interface or docks it to the top area of the interface. So that's fine, I can always dock, I can also undock if I want. You may have notice that there is these vertical gripper lines here if you will, these little gripper spots all the way throughout the Toolbars in the top area here. So if I grab on one of those Gripper Lines there and drag straight down that Undocks a Toolbar from the top area here and I can do this with all sorts of Toolbars here. I can pull the find down here; I could go back to that Advanced Editing and pull him down if I want. So I can really sort of rearrange and organize how I want to set things up here. Now for example, Find is a Toolbar that I personally don't use very often so I might decide to close him out, same with the Tasks Toolbar which runs right across the top of the Interface here. If you're brand new to Acrobat you might like this Toolbar because it presents some pretty common tasks and commands here inside Acrobat. But I find that I just don't use it very often myself. So I'm going to grab his little Vertical Gripper Line there and drag him straight down and I'll just close him out. Maybe I'll take my Select and Zoom and drag him back up to the top along with my Advanced Editing here, something like that. Alright, so there you go, so you can completely organize your toolbars here. Something else that I should show you as well, I'll use my Advanced Editing Toolbar for this, is you don't have to dock your Toolbars to the top. You can actually dock them to any side of your screen inside Acrobat here. So for example I could take my Advanced Editing Toolbar here, again just dragging on that Title Bar there and I could pull him way over to the left-hand side. I could have my Toolbar running vertically down the left-hand side if I wanted to or what I could do is I could drag him way over to the right-hand side and have my Toolbars running down the right-hand side of my screen. And of course I could do the same thing right across the bottom of my screen. I'll just drag this guy all the way down to the bottom and now I have my toolbars running across the bottom of the Acrobat Interface. So you can set this up however you want, completely customized your Acrobat Interface, custom tailor it to the way that you like to work. Now once you have your Toolbars set-up the way you like I'm just going to drag this guy back up to the top here for example, what I could do is I could lock this so that I could never Undock them. What I could do is I could go to the View Menu and then down to Toolbars and then down to Lock Toolbars and once I choose that Command all of the Vertical Lines inside my Toolbars disappear. So I can't drag on anything to Undock them anymore, but of course I could go back to View, Toolbars and then back down to Lock Toolbars and now of course my Vertical Gripper Lines show up which means I can continue Customizing the Interface. So there you go, so you may want to lock your Toolbars after you customize everything so that you don't accidentally move something.
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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