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:

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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.

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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

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Do any of the following:

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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