Button bar

Acrobat's button bar, which is directly below the menu bar, offers immediate access to many menu operations. To activate a button, just click on it. Many of the buttons are explained in the section that follows. The remaining buttons will be described in separate sections.

Overview buttons

The first three buttons on the button bar control what is shown in the Overview area at the left side of the screen. The first one is "Page Only," which includes only a view of the page.

Next to it is the "Bookmarks" button.Bookmarks are an easy way to navigate within a document. They act like a table of contents for a document in which you can click on a particular line to bring up that section of the document. If your screen is not showing Bookmarks (they'd be on the left side), push the Bookmark button now to see what they look like.

Thumbnailsare small reproductions of pages through which you can scroll. If your screen is not showing Thumbnails now (they'd be on the left side), push the Thumbnails button to see what they look like. Clicking on one of the mini-pages takes you directly to that page. In fact, clicking on a particular part of the thumbnail will display that portion on your screen.

Hand tool

Another way to get around the text on your screen is to use the Hand tool to push or pull the screen image into position to display the part you want to see. Press the button to select the tool, place the cursor where you want the hand to grab the document, hold down the mouse button, and then drag the mouse to move the image. Release the button when you're done. The Hand tool is also used to read a "threaded" publication. This feature, important for comfortably reading publications onscreen, is explained later in the tutorial.

Zoom buttons

You can use the Zoom buttons to magnify or reduce the size of the page so you can see the images or read the type more comfortably. The whole range is from 50 percent to 800 percent of the original page size.

Browsing buttons

These buttons enable you to page through the publication easily. Thebutton automatically takes you to the first page of the document; thebutton takes you to the final page. The middle buttons enable you to go to the previous or next page. If a button is grayed out, it is not applicable. For example, if you're on the final page of a document, the "Next page"button is grayed out because no subsequent page is available.

Retracing buttons

The retracing buttons allow you to retrace your path through a document, backward or forward. These buttons (called "Go back" and "Go forward") are not exactly like the browsing buttons, which take you to a previous or subsequent page in page number order. Instead, the retracing buttons enable you to move through the pages in the order in which you visited them. For example, if you were on page 3 of a document, then jumped ahead to page 10, the Go Back buttonwould take return you to page 3, not take you to page 9.

Fit buttons

These buttons control the magnification of the page on your computer screen. The "Actual size" buttondisplays the page at 100% of its size. The "Fit page" buttonreduces a page so it appears on your computer screen in its entirety. This size may be too small to read comfortably. The "Fit width"button adjusts the page so its width fills the Acrobat window (minus book-marks or thumbnails, if any).

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