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2007-04-09 14:08:55
mynah93
Registered: Apr 9 2007
Posts: 2

I need to take several documents (some excel, some word, some from a third party source but I can print to adobe) and put them all together in a "binder" and save them to a disk - WITH a table of contents - which I would like set up with left navigation so that our directors can use this CD, to click on a document description in the table of contents and then be taken to that particular document - then back - of course.
Are there any tutorial's which would explain step by step how to accomplish this?
 
Thank you.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 6.0.0, Windows
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2007-04-11 10:28:56
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
There are lots of ways to set up navigation in a PDF file. If you have Acrobat Professional you can set up links, bookmarks, and buttons for this task. The Acrobat documentation has examples and step by step procedures.

By "left navigation" I'm assuming you mean bookmarks. The bookmarks panel has a "New Bookmark" button. Just press it, fill in the text for the name, and use the right click menu to set the destination.

If you do this task on a regular basis you would probably like to have some level of automation to make the process easier. Everyone has different needs in this area so there isn't a standard methodology in place that you can use, but the "Combine Files" function in Acrobat does create a bookmark for each file. If you want more automation than this you'll have to look into creating some automation JavaScript.

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