Course Description

This course covers everything you need to know about how to create forms and form workflow processes using Acrobat 11 (commonly known as Acrobat XI). Topics discussed will be the introductory concepts of electronic documents and strategies of form creation. Techniques on making Acrobat auto-detect the form fields to placing and setting up the form fields will also be taught.

The topics will expand to implement the most commonly requested form features like advanced techniques using javascript and on using the Form Distribution Process to ultimately aggregate data into the spreadsheet.

ACROBAT 11 ESSENTIALS

• Acrobat 11 interface and workflow
• Customising toolbars to organise workspace
• ESSENTIALS OF PDF FORMS
• Starting a form with the Form Wizard
• Planning methods on having Adobe Acrobat to recognise forms
• Easily create forms using Form Field Recognition feature
• Enabling usage rights in Adobe Reader
• Learn the different elements of a PDF form

CREATING FILLABLE FORMS IN ACROBAT

• Capturing info via text fields
• Restricting certain types of data
• Creating mandatory fields
• Creating multiple fields efficiently
• Adding radio buttons and check boxes to request decision
• Giving options with combo box
• Constructing calculated text fields
• Formatting text fields
• Adding reset and submit buttons for ease of using the form

MANAGING FORMS

• Using simplified field notations to perform simple calculations
• Showing and hiding fields
• Setting tab order to set field order
• Adding Javascript to a field
• Automatically generate date and time within a form
• Using the Form Distribution Process to distribute to multiple recipients
• Aggregating data to spreadsheet
• Tracking forms within Acrobat
• Getting started with Adobe FormsCentral

Duration

1 day ( 9am – 6pm ) 

Target Audience

Great for anyone who needs to prepare forms electronically and ultimately compile the data into Excel spreadsheet. No basic knowledge in Acrobat is required.