The Basics of Editing PDF Documents in Microsoft Office

Paint QR Code ISO/IEC18004 in Microsoft Office The Basics of Editing PDF Documents

You can extract pages from an existing PDF document and use them as the basis for a new PDF document When you extract pages, you can preserve the extracted pages in the original document or delete them To extract pages from a PDF document, follow these steps: 1 Open the PDF document that contains the pages you want to extract 2 Open the Pages tab by clicking Pages in the Navigation pane or by choosing View | Navigation Tabs | Pages 3 Click the thumbnails that correspond to the pages you want to extract Alternatively, you can enter the range of pages to extract in the Extract Pages dialog box Note that if you select noncontiguous pages, Acrobat extracts a range of pages from the first selected page to the last 4 Choose Document | Extract Pages to open the Extract Pages dialog box:

5 If you already selected thumbnails, go to Step 6; otherwise, specify a range of pages by entering page numbers in the From and To fields 6 Check the Delete Pages After Extracting box to have Acrobat delete the pages from the original document when they are extracted 7 Check the Extract Pages As Separate Files box to create one PDF document for each page extracted 8 Click OK to extract the pages; Acrobat opens the extracted pages as a new document If you check the Extract Pages As Separate Files box, the Browse For Folder dialog box appears, prompting you for a folder in which to save the extracted pages After you select the desired folder, click OK, and Acrobat creates a PDF le for each extracted page but does not open the new documents in Acrobat The extracted pages inherit the lename of the document from which they were extracted, followed by the page number 9 Choose File | Save As and then specify a filename and location where you want the extracted pages saved

If you create a PDF document and you find that one or more of the document pages have excessive margins, you can trim (crop) the margins You can also use this command to crop out extraneous material from a PDF document, such as a banner in a PDF document created from a web page You crop pages by using a menu command or a tool

To crop pages using the menu command, follow these steps: 1 Open the document whose pages you want to crop Select a range of pages to crop by clicking thumbnails in the Pages tab (Alternatively, you can select the range of pages to crop after you open the Crop Pages dialog box) 2 Choose Document | Crop Page to open the Crop Pages dialog box, as shown in Figure 9-2 3 Select the parameter you want to crop:

a service center This option allows for paper trimming and folding Note that printer marks may fall outside the specified bleed area

space you want included in the finished document 4 In the Margin Controls area, enter a value to crop in any or all of the following fields: Top, Bottom, Left, and Right For example, to crop 1 inch from the top margin, enter 1 in the Top field Alternatively, you can click the spinner buttons to select a value Press shift while clicking a spinner button to make the values change in greater increments As you modify the margin values, a black rectangle around the thumbnail in the center of the Crop Margins section changes to reflect the size of the document with the modified margin settings

check this box and enter a value in a margin field, Acrobat updates the other fields so that the document will be cropped with its original aspect ratio

Click Set To Zero to reset the margin values to zero Click Revert To Selection to reset the margins to the previous cropping rectangle

This button resets the margins to zero unless you use the Crop tool to define the cropping rectangle and then modify one of the margins