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PDF Fundamentals for Business Professionals

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Coursera
Pricing

Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

4 weeks, 1 hour a week
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner
Subtitles

English

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Adobe Acrobat for Business Professionals

Overview

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Most professionals use PDFs every day but hit a wall the moment they need to do anything beyond opening them. This course changes that. You will leave with a practical, confident command of Adobe Acrobat and the core PDF skills that make everyday work faster and more professional. You will learn to create PDFs from Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and scanned images, and use OCR to turn those scans into searchable, editable files. From there you will edit text and images directly inside existing PDFs without breaking formatting, and organize complex multi-page documents by merging, splitting, rearranging, and extracting pages. By the end of the course you will know how to add page numbers, headers, footers, and watermarks so every document you send looks polished and intentional, not pieced together. Each skill builds on the last so you finish with a complete foundation you can use immediately, on any document, in any role.

Syllabus

Getting Started with Acrobat

This module introduces the Acrobat workspace and explains how the platform supports everyday document workflows. You’ll explore how Acrobat organizes its tools and customize the interface so the features you use most are always within reach.

Creating Professional PDFs

In this module, you’ll learn how to create PDFs from the files you already use every day. You’ll convert documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images, scan paper documents into digital files, and optimize PDFs for sharing.

Editing PDF Content

This module focuses on updating and refining existing documents. You’ll learn how to edit text and images directly inside PDFs and explore tools to help maintain your layout and structure as changes are made.

Organizing Multi-Page Documents

In this module, you’ll learn how to create PDFs from the files you already use every day. You’ll convert documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images, scan paper documents into digital files, and optimize PDFs for sharing.