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Acrobat Legal Training Movies

By Rick Borstein

An update to Rick's Legal Training Movie Page! What's new:

• Acrobat for Legal Professionals eSeminar
  1-hour eSeminar. A great overview of Acrobat 9 for Legal Folks.
• Using Acrobat and the Tablet PC

Get up to speed on legal features of Acrobat fast!

Required: Adobe Flash 9+, High Speed Internet Connection

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Watch "Acrobat for Legal Professionals" eSeminar

Creating PDFs

• Basics for PDF Creation
  Understanding the differences between printing to PDF and the PDF Makers installed by Acrobat.
• Creating Custom PDF Settings in Word
• Email Archiving
• Web Capture
• Scanning Paper Documents to PDF with Acrobat

Combining PDF

• Creating a PDF Binder
  A single, multiple-page PDF from many sources
• Creating a PDF Portfolio
  Create a Deal Binder using a PDF Portfolio
• Creating an eBrief
  Combine a word processing file and cites into a well-organized, hyperlinked and bookmarked eBrief

Watch 1-hour Closing Binder eSeminar

Working with PDFs

• Creating and working with Bookmarks
• Creating and working with Links
• Compare Two PDFs
• Making Edits to PDFs with the Touchup Text Tool
• Changing the version of a PDF
  • Check versions, change versions, change multiple PDFs
• Splitting a PDF by file size, pages or bookmarks
• Exporting a PDF to Word (and other word processors)
• Removing hard line endings from copied text
  (for citing and easier re-use)
• Extracting a Non-sequential range of pages from a PDF
• Replacing pages in a PDF

OCR

• ClearScan vs Image+Text OCR
• OCR multiple files at once using the OCR Multiple feature

Search

• Find and Search: Understanding the differences
• Creating a Full-Text Index for faster searching

Security

• Checking and Removing Security on a PDF
• Password Security: Applying Passwords, Security Policies

Legal-specific Features

• Redaction
• Bates Numbering
• Metadata Removal

Forms

• Understanding Form Field types
• Creating a Form with the Forms Wizard
• Set font and wrap for Text fields
• Field formatting and validation
• Duplicating fields, Creating Calculations
• Reader-enabling a Form
• Form Data Collection
• Flattening Forms
  Make form fields a non-editable part of the document layer

Watch 1-hour Forms eSeminar

Collaboration and Commenting

• Add Comments to a PDF (basic)
• Exploring Comments Types
• Working with the Comment Panel
• Create a Comments Summary
• Document Co-Navigation
• Using the Typewriter tool to type on a PDF
• Understanding Email Review
• Understanding Shared Review
• Creating a Custom Stamp
• Flattening Annotations
  Make comments a non-editable part of the document layer
• Using Acrobat and the Tablet PC
  Using Evermap AutoInk plugin. Demo by TableLawyer.com
  

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).