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Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorials

Getting Around Inside Acrobat / Zooming & Navigation Techniques

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Alright. Now, in terms of navigating, zooming, getting around inside Acrobat, if you fiddled around already with Acrobat or maybe you've used Acrobat Reader for a while, you've probably figured this stuff out. But here is the official training. First off, way up at the top on my toolbar here I have my Magnifying Glass Tool, my Zoom Tool and he'll let me do a couple of neat things here. I'm going to grab him here, just click on him. First of all, what I could do is just single click if I want to zoom in on an area of my page; no big deal, right? Now, of course, if I want to now zoom back out, how do I do that? Well, here's a neat trick. On the Mac here I'm going to hold down the Option Key. On the Windows side, try holding down Alt. And you'll notice that the Plus Sign inside your Magnifying Glass, inside your cursor, changes to a Minus and of course, if I single click with either Option or Alt held down, I'll zoom back out. So that's kind of a neat trick for zooming in and then, of course, zooming out again; Alt or Option. Now, the other thing that I can do with the Zoom Tool here, rather than single clicking to zoom in on an area, what I could do is click and drag a box around a piece of text here or around a graphic or whatever I like and that will snap me right in on that area. I'll just zoom out here just using Option or Alt and I'll give that one more try here. I'm just going to click and drag a box around the area that I want to zoom in on. Perfect. OK, great. Now that I'm zoomed way in here, here's another way to zoom out on your document. Just beside the Magnifying Glass Tool, just to the right of the Magnifying Glass Tool, way up on my toolbar I have a Zoom Out Button and of course, right beside him, a Zoom In Button. So there's another way to zoom in and zoom out on your document. Use whichever technique you like the most. And then beside that I have a Zoom Percentage Drop-Down Menu here. So I could zoom way in to 200 percent if I wanted to or zoom way out to 50 percent; whatever I like here. Or, of course, I could type in a number here if I wanted to. Let's say 800 percent. Now, that zooms me way in. This brings me to something else I want to show you; zooms me way in on my document. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure where I am inside my document. All I see is white; this magical white landscape here. So to zoom all the way back out, give this a try. This is a keyboard shortcut here. Try Command 0 on the Mac or Control 0 on the Windows side and that will zoom you all the way back out. That's a really neat trick. And that'll work, of course, if you're zoomed in to any percentage; Command 0 or Control 0. Perfect. Next up I have the last two icons way up at the top of the screen here. I have my Fit Width, which of course, when I click it fits the width of my document into the Acrobat interface and then I also have one called Fit Page, which is very similar to the Command 0 or the Control 0 shortcut there. He'll fit the entire page into the Acrobat interface. So Fit Width and Fit Page. Alright. Now, last but not least, a few other neat techniques, shortcuts for zooming in and out. Here's two of my favorites on the Mac here: Command Plus or Control Plus on the Windows side and of course Command Minus or Control Minus on the Windows side to zoom out. So Command Plus, Command Minus, Control Plus, Control Minus and of course that goes along with your Control or Command 0 there as well. Alright. So there you go. There's some shortcut. Of course I could also go to the View Menu and then down to Zoom and then I could choose Actual Size or there's the Fit Width, Fit Height or I could choose Zoom To I suppose and I get a dialog box that gives me the exact same drop-down menu that we have available up on the toolbar there. So there's 50,000 ways to zoom inside Acrobat. Pick one or two methods that work for you and all should be well.

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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