Adobe Acrobat allows you to seamlessly view, edit, and share PDF documents regardless if you're working from the office or on the go.

Hey everyone!

My name is Angelo Montilla from www.montilladesign.com.

I'm an Adobe Certified Designer, Trainer and YouTube Content Creator.

In this video, you'll gain a better understanding of the workspaces and tools in Acrobat for desktop, learn how to create a PDF from a document in a different file format, as well as add comments and markup to a PDF.

Let's dive into Acrobat and learn more about its capabilities.

In this tutorial, we'll be working with Acrobat for desktop.

However, you can also access Acrobat in a web browser or mobile application.

The Acrobat workspace has three views when the application is launched, the Home view, All tools view and Document view.

The Home view, which you're currently looking at is the app's landing page when no document is open.

This is also where you can view Recent files, Starred files, and documents you may have stored in the Adobe Cloud.

To access the All tools view from the Home page, you can click on See all tools.

The All tools view is a list of all the tools available in Acrobat, and they're grouped into categories.

To get a better sense of the Document view, let's create a PDF from a PowerPoint presentation.

To do that, I can hover over the Create button and then click Create a PDF.

Here I can choose Select a file, target the PowerPoint presentation that I'd like to convert to a PDF and click Open.

The other way is to simply drag the PowerPoint presentation file into the Acrobat workspace, and that will convert it into a PDF.

The presentation has been converted into a PDF and we're now in the Document view.

Here you'll see that the All tools panel is located on the left-hand side.

You can close it and then reopen it by clicking All tools.

To quickly navigate through a document, you can click on the Next page icon and make your way through the PDF, and then click on the Previous page icon to go back to the first page.

I can also use the Pages thumbnails panel to navigate through the PDF, or simply go to a specific page in the document.

Next, let's get a closer look at how to add comments and markup to a PDF.

Commenting and marking up a PDF is a common practice when sharing the document for review and making revisions.

In the floating Toolbar, click on the Add a comment icon and choose Add a comment.

Next, go ahead and click on an image in the document.

This will apply a Comment icon to the document and launch a text field to add your comments.

If I expand this, I can add a comment such as, Please use the other headshot and then click Post.

Let's add another comment.

Go back to the Add a comment tool, click and choose Replace selected text.

For this, I'm going to select the word Chief in Chief of Marketing, and I'd like to replace that with the word Director instead, and then click Post again.

Your comments will appear in the Comments panel on the right-hand side, and you can see the first one, if I hover over it, the Comment icon in the document displays an animated highlight to show you where the comment is located on the page.

And the same thing happens with the other Comment icon on the page, if I hover over that comment.

You can also highlight text by clicking the Highlight selected text tool and choosing Highlight.

Let's assume the name Rosedale is misspelled and actually should be Rossdale.

Simply highlight it, click it once and add a comment.

Let's again expand the window and add the comment to change the name from the incorrect spelling of Rosedale to Rossdale.

Once you've added the comment, go ahead and click Post again.

If I go back to my Comments panel, you can also reply to these comments. so let's address the first one.

I'll click Reply, and say, I'm on it.

And then click Post.

And you can see it creates a chain with the original comment, as well as the reply from the viewer.

Once I've replied, I can set the status of the original comment to Complete.

You can do that by clicking the three-dots icon to open the More menu.

Going down to Set status and choosing Completed.

That adds a green checkmark to the comment, noting that it's been completed.

One of the things I love about Acrobat is just how easy it is to create a PDF from different file formats.

Now that you have a better understanding of how to use the tools and workspaces, you can get started using it with your own projects.

Once again, my name is Angelo Montilla, and I'll see you in the next video.