One of the best things about reading documents is convenience. Search, hyperlinks and bookmarks can all aid the reading experience by making it easier to find relevant information within a given document. In particular, a bookmark tree is an excellent addition to multi-page documents that provides both a navigational aid and a convenient document overview. Bookmarks can also open web pages, other PDF files or even execute JavaScript, turning the bookmark pane into a powerful cross-site navigational element.
Here’s how to create bookmarks in Acrobat 7:
- Open your PDF to the location and zoom level that you wish to bookmark.
- Highlight the text on the page, if any, that you would like to use as the bookmark title. If there is no appropriate text, don’t worry — you can simply enter your preferred title at a later stage.
- Hold Ctrl-B (Function-B on Mac machines) to create the bookmark. If you did not select text for the bookmark title, you will need to enter it now.
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Once you’ve created several bookmarks, you can click and drag them into a hierarchy (e.g headings and subheadings) or modify the font styles and colors by right-clicking a bookmark and selecting Properties from the context menu.