How to Do Everything Adobe Acrobat X

Use the Panes

Acrobat has lots of tools and menu commands. Previous versions of Acrobat displayed most of the tools on the menu command bar. In Acrobat X Pro, you perform tasks by choosing menu commands that are conveniently located in panes on the right side of the interface. You have three panes with which to work: Tools, Comment, and Share.

Use the Tools Pane

In the Tools pane, you find commands to edit pages, edit content, create forms, use the Action Wizard, recognize text from scanned documents, and protect the document. To access the Tools pane, click the Tools icon. The illustration at left shows the default sections in the Tools pane. Click a section title to reveal a group of related commands. The commands in each section will be covered ...