Document Preparation & Editing: Adobe Pro

When: 
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 9:00am
Where: 
MDL-3116 (medial lab, third floor COM, near lecture halls)

Using Adobe Pro: Document Conversion, Portfolio Prep, Creating Forms & More

This page provide an overview of the basic functionality in Adobe Pro. In 2016, SOS created a guide for using the newer version, Adobe DC. 

Some employees still have the older version, and so this page remains avaialble to describe the features and functionality, as well as provide resources for learning both the older and new versions of professional document editing and preparation software by Adobe.

Adobe Guides

Funcationality: Create and Edit PDFs 

  • Generate basic portable document format (PDF) files from Microsoft® Office documents (print; save as)

  • Combining existing PDFs into a single document or package

  • Create Portfolios with hyperlinks to external documents or sites

Functionality is the same although the "look and feel" and organization of Adobe DC is different - read, better. Below is an example of how functions are organized. Adobe DC organizes tools by function.

Edit Functions Adobe Pro Edit Functions Adobe DC

  • Touch-up text editing tool

  • Touch-up object editor

  • "Typewriter" function

  • Insert external documents

  • Delete or crop pages

DC combines many of the functions

from Adobe Pro into the following uber functions:

Edit

Comment

Organize Pages

Fill & Sign Document

Both older and newer versions have the following features and functions:

Comments

  • Create and format comments

  • Use markup tools

  • Modify styles (format and color; presentation/display)

Indexing: Create bookmarks (automatically and manually) as navigable table of contents

Formatting

  • ​Add Headers or Footers

  • Insert date/time stamps

Document Properties 

  • ​Create meta data

  • Limit access or permissions to document (edit/add document properties)

  • Settings for how documents will open on other computers

  • Security features & settings

  • Display and program preferences

Special features

  • ​Find versus Search

  • Read out loud

  • Shared review and editing features

  • Creating and using certified signatures

  • Create searchable documents & OCR text recognition  

A note about SOS Workshops

The FID Director conducts several Support for Office Staff (SOS) workshops each year. The SOS Series is not a certified skills program, such as is offered by The University of Arizona through its professional development courses in information technology and the IT Academy for Microsoft® Products as part of its software licensing benefits (see Related Resources below). The SOS workshop series is aimed at assisting OMSE staff as well as clerkship and elective/selective coordinators in further developing skills in using office applications, such as Microsoft® Office Word, Excel, Project, Visio, and PowerPoint and Adobe Pro, in ways targeted to support the medical education program. Some workshops may offer opportunities to learn new software.The primary facilitator for these workshops will be Karen Spear Ellinwood, PhD, JD, OMSE Faculty instructional development. AHSC BioCommunications staff may provide additional assistance or source materials.

Related Resources

Workshop Descriptions Mail Chimp DropBox BoxNet ArizonaMed