The Ultimate Guide to Adobe Acrobat DC, Second Edition

by Daniel J. Siegel, Pamela A. Myers

Overview

The book will introduce you to the product's many benefits, including:

• Editing and annotating PDF files
• Sharing PDF files
• Sending PDF files electronically
• Redacting and Bates numbering documents
• Allowing users with free Adobe® Reader to fill forms, add comments, and suggest revisions
• Inserting notes and comments
• Storing e-mail
• Securing PDFs to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing the files
• Securing documents of all types to prevent the disclosure of confidential information
• Removing metadata and other information from PDF files
• Preventing other users from making changes to PDF files
• Improving workflow and increasing productivity
• Reducing the use of paper

The most comprehensive guide available, the fully updated second edition of The Ultimate Guide to Adobe® Acrobat® DC discusses and demonstrates the features that all businesses and law offices use, and explains and illustrates what the features are, why they are important, and how to use them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641058933
Publisher:	American Bar Association
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Attorney Daniel J. Siegel is a nationally recognized authority on ethics, technology, data protection and cybersecurity, civil litigation and workers’ compensation matters, and business workflow management, and the principal of both the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC and Integrated Technology Services, LLC.

Dan provides techno-ethics counsel to solo, small and mid-sized law firms on cybersecurity, technology and other related issues. His practice includes representing attorneys in disciplinary matters; providing professional responsibility guidance to attorneys and firms; serving as appellate counsel; representing individuals in workers’ compensation and personal injury matters. In short Dan handles the types of matters that keep attorneys awake at night.

In addition, Attorney Siegel represents clients in workers’ compensation, personal injury, and Social Security disability claims, as well as assisting clients with estate planning and other needs. Dan’s expertise ranges from handling everything from major mass torts to small claims matters during his 38-year career. Most clients do not know about all of the areas of Dan’s expertise, which have earned him a national reputation for excellence in many subjects.

Attorney Dan Siegel has handled everything from multimillion-dollar class actions to small claims matters, and of course, he has and continues to represent clients in automobile, workers’ compensation, slip and fall cases, each with the same level of personal attention to his clients’ concerns. Whether a case needs to go to trial, or settle, or be appealed, Dan will do what is in the client’s best interests, and the results show. Notably, he has been named Best Lawyers® 2022 Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants “Lawyer of the Year” in Philadelphia.

Pamela A. Myers is Office Administrator for Integrated Technology Services, LLC and the Office Administrator, Paralegal, and client liaison for the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC.

With more than 25 years of experience in the legal field, Pam is known for her technological acumen, her attention to detail, her ability to anticipate an attorney’s needs, and her dedication to obtaining the best results for clients.

Her genuine enjoyment of technology and what it has to offer helps her to convey to others not only how to use technology but also why they should use and embrace it. While employed as a paralegal at her former firms, Pam was often called upon to help train others because of her talent for conveying things in a simple, easy to understand way.

Pam has worked as a paralegal since 1996 representing both plaintiffs and defendants. While employed as a paralegal at a large, nationally known firm, she also served as the paralegal coordinator for her practice group, supervising and training the group’s paralegals. She received her bachelor’s degree, with honors, from West Chester University. After working for five years in business management, Pam decided to pursue paralegal studies at the PJA School, where she graduated at the top of her class. Her professional activities have included serving on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals, as its Second Vice President, and also as Editor-in-Chief of its newsletter.

Table of Contents

Getting the Most Out of This Book CHAPTER 1: The Advantages of Using PDFs and Adobe Acrobat DC  CHAPTER 2: Getting to Know Adobe Acrobat DC  CHAPTER 3: Creating and Saving PDFs  CHAPTER 4: Arranging and Manipulating PDFs  CHAPTER 5: Numbering Pages and Adding Backgrounds  CHAPTER 6: OCRing (Converting PDFs to Make the Text Searchable) and Searching OCRed PDFs  CHAPTER 7: Editing and Displaying PDF Content  CHAPTER 8: Adding and Working with Comments  CHAPTER 9: Creating an Index of One or More PDFs  CHAPTER 10: Creating, Modifying, and Working with Forms CHAPTER 11: Reducing the Size of PDF Files  CHAPTER 12: Redacting Text (Acrobat Professional Only) CHAPTER 13: Bates Numbering (Acrobat Professional Only)  CHAPTER 14: Using Acrobat for Discovery, Document Production, and Other Matters  CHAPTER 15: Securing Your Documents  CHAPTER 16: Adding Signatures, Initials, and Digital Signatures (Including the Fill & Sign Tool)  CHAPTER 17: Using Actions and Custom Commands (Acrobat Professional Only)  CHAPTER 18: Working with Document Properties and Accessibility  CHAPTER 19: Using the Acrobat DC Mobile Reader Apps  APPENDIX A: Liquid Mode, Resources, Add-Ons, and Scripts APPENDIX B: Creating a Document or File Naming Protocol APPENDIX C: Keyboard Shortcuts (for Windows and Mac) APPENDIX D: Acrobat Compatibility with Microsoft Office Products  INDEX