Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 203)

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Editing PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
Create a bookmark
1 Click the Bookmarks button on the left to open the Bookmarks panel.
2 Open the page where you want the bookmark to link to, and adjust the view settings.
3 Use the Select tool to select the area of the page you want to bookmark:
• To bookmark a single image, click in the image, or drag a rectangle around the image.
• To bookmark a portion of an image, drag a rectangle around the portion.
• To bookmark text, drag to select it. The selected text becomes the label of the new bookmark. You can edit the
label.
4 Select the bookmark under which you want to place the new bookmark. If you don’t select a bookmark, the new
bookmark is automatically added at the end of the list.
Choose Tools > Content Editing > Add Bookmark .
5 In the Bookmarks panel, type or edit the name of the new bookmark.
Edit a bookmark
In Reader, you can make bookmarks easier to read by changing their text appearance.
In Acrobat, you can change a bookmark’s attributes at any time.
Rename a bookmark
❖ Select the bookmark in the Bookmarks panel, choose Rename Bookmark in the options menu , and type the
new bookmark name.
Wrap text in a long bookmark
❖ Click the Bookmarks button, and choose Wrap Long Bookmarks from the options menu .
All the text of long bookmarks shows regardless of the width of the navigation pane. (This option is on when
checked, and off when not checked.)
Change the text appearance of a bookmark
You can change the appearance of a bookmark to draw attention to it.
1 In the Bookmarks panel, select one or more bookmarks.
2 (Acrobat only) To change the color and style of the text, choose View > Show/Hide > Toolbars Items > Properties
Bar.
After you have defined a bookmark’s appearance, you can reuse the appearance settings. To do this, select the
bookmark and from the options menu
, choose Use Current Appearance As New Default.
3 To change the font size, from the options menu , choose Text Size > [size].
Change a bookmark’s destination
1 In the Bookmarks panel, select the bookmark.
2 In the document pane, move to the location you want to specify as the new destination.
3 If necessary, adjust the view magnification.
4 Choose Set Bookmark Destination in the options menu .