From the course: Acrobat DC Essential Training

Get to know the controls - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial

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Get to know the controls

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- [Instructor] Now let's start exploring the Acrobat DC interface. Starting at the top of the screen, you'll find the usual menu bar items, like File, Edit, View, and so on. In the main window, you'll find some tabs here. Under the Home tab, you can quickly access PDF documents you previously opened under the Recent category. You'll see them listed here in the main part of the window. And across the top, you'll see some common tasks you might want to perform in Acrobat, like creating a PDF, sharing a PDF with others, adding comments to a PDF, and so on. And you could click any of these to quickly jump into those workflows. Let's look a little more at this column on the left side of the window. So as I mentioned, we have Recent, which, when selected, will show you all the files you most recently opened here in the main part of the window. We also have Starred, which is kind of like a favorites location. This is where you can access the files you most frequently access or work with. For example, I could go back to Recent. Roll over one of these file names. If I click that, notice this star now appears. And when I go and select the Starred category, we can see that file in here. So I'll always be able to quickly get to it from here, even if it disappears from my Recent list. I can also unstar it from here to remove it. Next, we have the Document Cloud area, where we can access files stored in the cloud through my Adobe account. Basically, when you save files, you can choose to save them to Document Cloud, so they can be accessed on other devices where you're signed into the same account. And you can browse your Document Cloud files by selecting All files, or you can narrow them down by scans, or files that were shared by you, or that were shared to you by others. Below that, under Other Storage, you can select My Computer to find files saved on the computer you're currently using. You'll see frequently accessed folders on your computer here, but you can also click Browse to browse to any location on your computer to find your files. And below that, you can select Add an Account to sign into any of these cloud-based services that you have an account with. So if you use Dropbox or Google Drive to store your files, for example, you can click Add to sign into any of these accounts to access your files directly from here in Acrobat. And then we have this All Agreements area, which is where you'll find documents that you've signed with Acrobat's digital signature tools. So that's the Home tab. Let's come up and go to the Tools tab here. And here we have organized collections of tasks or operations you can perform on PDFs. Over here on the right, you can see some of the tools that are listed here, so you can quickly access them, instead of hunting through all of the tools here in the main part of the window. You can also customize which tools appear in this right panel. For example, if I frequently have to compare files, I can find that action... Right here, and click Add. And it's instantly added here to the right. If I decide I no longer need it there, I can just roll over it and click the X that appears. And I can still always get to it from the original location here in the main tools area. You'll also always see your document tab here at the top, for any documents that are currently open. While viewing your document, you'll notice this vertical bar on the left side of the window. Clicking that shows and hides what's called the navigation pane. These are tools for navigating your way through the document. For example, I can come up here and click on Page Thumbnails to see thumbnails for all the pages of document. And clicking any thumbnail quickly takes me to that page. I can click the X to collapse that panel. And if I want to hide the navigation pane, I can just click this vertical bar again. And we can do the same thing on the right by clicking this bar, and collapsing the tools to just icons, so we have more room to look at the document. And clicking it again expands it once more. Okay, so that's a quick initial look at the Acrobat layout.

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