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Using Adobe Acrobat This document contains instructions on creating and working with PDF documents. The first topic contains instruction on converting documents created in MS Word and Corel WordPerfect to PDF (Portable Document Format) using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 and 6.0. After creating the PDF document(s) of your ETD, you can then combine multiple PDF documents into one, and perform a number of different editing functions in the document. The remainder of the topics included here will assist you in these PDF editing tasks. Use the Bookmarks panel to navigate. Converting Documents to PDF Combining Multiple PDF Documents Adding Internal Links to a PDF Document Adding Multimedia Elements to a PDF Document Editing Text in PDF Documents Setting PDF Documents Properties Working with Bookmarks Working with Page Commands in PDF Documents Converting Documents to PDF In order to make your ETD document available to the greatest number of people, it must be converted to a PDF document for online viewing. The following two conversion methods for MS Word documents and a method for Corel WordPerfect documents will be described here. Creating PDF Documents from within MSWord Creating PDF Documents Manually with Acrobat Distiller Creating PDF Documents from within Corel WordPerfect Creating PDF documents from within Word The simplest and easiest method of converting a Word document to PDF is the automated process from within Word. When Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0 is installed on a computer that already has Microsoft Office applications installed, a macro named Acrobat PDFMaker is automatically installed. The next time you run Word after installing Acrobat, an Acrobat easy access menu command appears on the Microsoft Office application menu bar, and two buttons (Convert to Adobe PDF and Convert to Adobe PDF and E-mail) appear on the toolbar.