Adobe Acrobat X for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

1. Starting With Acrobat

In This Chapter

Launching and Quitting Acrobat X 2

Using the Welcome Screen 3

Examining the Initial Screen 5

Examining the Menus 7

Examining the Tasks Pane 8

Using the Toolbars 12

Customizing the Toolbars 13

Working with Navigation Panes 16

Setting Preferences 18

Let’s start with the basics: How to open Acrobat, what you’ll be looking at when you do so, and how to quit the application. We’ll also see how to customize some of the Acrobat user interface.

The goal in this chapter is to get oriented and become comfortable with the layout of the software’s windows.

Launching and Quitting Acrobat X

You open and quit Acrobat X the way you open or close any application on the Macintosh or in Windows.

To open Acrobat ...