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Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorials

Getting Around Inside Acrobat / Introducing the Organizer

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Alright. Now next up we'll have a look at something called the Organizer inside Acrobat. This is a file-management tool, a file-browsing tool here. Now, whether you have a PDF file open in Acrobat or not doesn't really matter. But I'm going to head up to the File Menu here and head down to Organizer and then I'll choose Open Organizer. Now, when you first open up the Organizer you're going to see this three-column display here. This might be a little bit confusing at first here. Remember though, it's a file manager though, a file browser. So here's what I'm going to do. I'll start things off here over on the left-hand side. I have three main areas. I have History, I have a File Structure and I have something weird and mystical called Collections. I'll start off with History here and I'm going to click on Today. Now, as soon as I click on Today, the center column is going to fill in with any PDF file that I opened up inside Acrobat today. So I've only opened up that Chapter 5 Layout PDF so he's the only PDF that shows up here. Imagine I had more in here though. I could click on the different PDFs here and then get a preview way over on the right-hand side. So because I only have the one here, he's the only one that's selected and I get this preview way over on the right-hand side. Now, what's cool about this is I could actually pull on this little divider here on the right and give myself a larger preview here by using the little Magnifier Option way down at the bottom. You know, what I like about this is when I'm looking for a file, I can't remember the file name but I can sure remember the contents of that file. So I can actually scroll through this document to see if it's the file that I want to open without actually committing to opening it inside Acrobat. It's pretty cool. Alright, now let me give you a better example here. I'm just going to drag my divider back here a little bit. I'm going to click on Yesterday. Alright, here we go. Now I had a bunch of PDF files opened up yesterday; one called Numbering Pages, there's one called Replacement, there's my Chapter 5 PDF again and again, same story. I can pull on that little divider there and actually navigate through, zoom in and zoom out and navigate through the PDF files over on the right-hand side. It's pretty cool. Now, if I find a file that I actually want to open it, I could click on the Open Button way up at the top or I could just double click on it right in the center column there and that will open the file up for me inside Acrobat. Pretty cool. OK, I'm going to close out of this file here. There's lots more to show you inside the Organizer. With one of your files selected inside this main column here, I could also print it, I could email it. There's an option here called Combine Files. I could also send it for a review if I wanted to. It's pretty neat. So there' s a brief introduction to the Organizer and, of course, how to use your History. Again, we have Today, we have Yesterday, Last Seven Days, Last 14 Days and so on and so on. Notice, by the way, that because I opened up that Numbering Pages PDF, it's now listed underneath the Today folder underneath the History Category. So using your History is one way to work with the Organizer. Of course I could also use my browser, my File Browser Area sort of in the middle area of the left-hand side. So what I could do for example is I could click on my Macintosh hard drive and pull up any PDFs that sit directly on my hard drive. Now, it's telling me here that I don't have any PDF files directly on my Macintosh hard drive but I could certainly go to my Desktop perhaps. No, there's no PDFs there either. Or maybe My Documents. Oh, there is AboutStacks.PDF. But of course what I could do is twist open my hard drive or any other category here and start digging around inside my file structure looking for PDF files here. Alright, so that's one way to work here. Now, what I could do as well is I could add my own location to my file structure here. These are called Favorite Places, by the way and you'll notice way down in the bottom-left corner there's an icon that looks like a folder with a star; Add a Favorite Place. So I'm going to click on that and there's my Module 3 Folder. I'm going to add my Module 3 Folder to My Favorite Places here. So all I would do is simply navigate to the folder that I want to add and then I'll click on the Add Button down in the bottom right and the Chapter 3 Folder gets added and sure enough, there's the PDF files that sit inside that folder. So if you have a location that you're constantly storing PDF files in, you can always add them into your file directory simply by using that Favorite Places Option. OK, there's a quick look at using Acrobat's Organizer.

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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