Organize pdf collections – Adobe Acrobat 8 3D User Manual

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ADOBE ACROBAT 3D VERSION 8

User Guide

Sort the files pane list

1

If necessary, select a subcategory or folder in the categories pane to display PDFs in the files pane.

2

In the files pane, do any of the following:

To sort the list of PDF files according to a particular property, choose a property from the Sort By menu.

To change the sorting direction, click the Ascending Sort Order button

or the Descending Sort Order button

to the right of the Sort By menu.

To view the location of the selected PDFs, right-click/Control-click, and choose Show In Windows Explorer
(Windows) or Show In Finder (Mac OS).

Organize PDF collections

You can manage PDF collections in the Organizer window.

Add a PDF to a collection

Do any of the following:

Right-click/Control-click the collection, choose Add Files, select one or more PDFs, and click Add.

Right-click/Control-click the PDF in the files pane, and choose Add To A Collection > [collection name].

Drag a PDF from Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder to the collection in the categories pane.

After selecting a subcategory in the History, My Computer, or Favorite Places category, drag a PDF from the files
pane to the desired collection.

In Acrobat, open the PDF and choose File > Organizer > Add To A Collection. Then either select the collection
to which you want to add the PDF or click New Collection, type a name, and click Create.

You can open any PDF from a collection by using the Open button

in the Organizer window or by choosing the

PDF filename from a submenu directly in Acrobat. To open a PDF from a collection in Acrobat, choose Collections

> [collection name] > [PDF filename] from either the File > Organizer submenu or the Organizer menu

in the File

toolbar.

Edit the collection folders

To rename a collection, right-click/Control-click the collection name, choose Rename Collection, and then type
the new name.

To delete a collection, right-click/Control-click the collection name, choose Delete Collection, and then click Yes
in the confirmation dialog box. The PDF files within the collection aren’t deleted from their original locations.

To create a new collection, click the Create A New Collection button

in the Organizer window. Or, in Acrobat,

choose File > Organizer > Create A New Collection. Type a name for the collection.

Move a PDF to a different collection

To move a PDF from one collection to another, select the collection that contains the PDF, right-click/Control­

click the PDF file in the files pane, and choose Move To Collection > [collection name].

Remove a PDF from a collection

To remove a PDF from a collection, select the collection, right-click/Control-click the PDF in the files pane, and

choose Remove From [collection name].

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