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Introduction to Acrobat Connect

You may have noticed the Start Meeting button in Acrobat 8 on the main toolbar. This button brings up Acrobat Connect, a paid online collaboration tool from Adobe. Acrobat Connect allows you to meet with a group of people online and features live video, teleconferencing, and the ability to share a view of your desktop […]

Acrobat 3D and CAD Software

Acrobat 3D integrates with various CAD software products and lets you convert CAD files into compressed PDF files. After converting to PDF, CAD designs can be more easily shared (much smaller file size) and marked up using Acrobat’s commenting tools. Acrobat 3D also has security features like password protection. PDF security isn’t perfect, but it […]

Introduction to Mail Merge

If you have Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word, you can save a lot of time using the mail merge feature. This feature lets you create PDF form letters, where each letter has a different address without manually typing in everything. Some users find Acrobat’s mail merge process overly complicated. For those people, I would suggest […]

Creating PDF Booklets in Acrobat

At times, you may want to print a PDF file in booklet form. Acrobat has some basic booklet options in the print menu. If you open Acrobat and go to Print, you’ll see Booklet Printing under the Page Scaling section. Below Page Scaling, Acrobat has Binding and Booklet Subset options.
If you’re looking for more […]

Creating PDF files with Word 2007

Microsoft Word 2007 works very differently than earlier versions of Word and those differences also affect Acrobat. Today, let’s take a look at the basic method for making PDF files from Word 2007.

First, open a document in Microsoft Word
On the top right Word menu click on Acrobat
Here we have all the main PDF options like […]