IT Training

Computing Workshop Descriptions - Acrobat

Acrobat: Enhancing Electronic Documents

Currently there are no scheduled offerings of this workshop.

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In this workshop, participants will learn how to create long documents in Acrobat and enhance them for electronic presentation. If you are combining multiple document types, as in a dissertations, grant applications, or manuscripts, this workshop is for you. In creating long PDF documents, participants will learn how to use Adobe Acrobat to add links to a document, add and rotate pages, add page numbers, and add a multimedia file to a PDF.

Participants will:

Create a PDF from multiple files
Insert, delete, and rotate pages
Edit text within a PDF
Create links
Add bookmarks
Add multimedia files

Participants should already be able to:

Create basic word processing documents
Work with a mouse and keyboard
Work with windows and menus

Acrobat: Enhancing Electronic Documents

In this workshop, participants will create an electronic application form using Adobe Acrobat. They will create the text fields, checkboxes and buttons, and fields which will perform calculations based on the values contained in other fields. Participants will also learn how to submit the form to an e-mail address, as well as submitting the form to a web-based processing script.

Participants will:

create text fields
create checkbox fields
format fields
calculate fields
submit forms through e-mail and the web
see results of a form submitted through the web

Participants should already be able to:

Create basic word processing documents
Work with a mouse and keyboard
Work with windows and menus