Ever wondered how to import comments from another PDF with a single click, filter your changes to easily find your queries, or help your designer apply your changes automatically? Look no further! How to Mark Up PDFs with Adobe Acrobat is packed with ideas to save you time and make your life easier. This course provides practical guidance, demonstrating the full potential of Adobe Acrobat’s mark-up tools and giving you tips to instantly improve your working practices. We will introduce good practice principles to help you work quickly, neatly and efficiently, and enable your design team to easily interpret, manage and implement your changes.
Designed to take you from novice to power-user, the course promotes active learning, using a blended approach of step-by-step demonstrations with opportunities to practise your new skills, ask advice during the session and check your understanding with summary quizzes. After the session, you will have access to handy summary sheets of the key skills you have learned.
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Who is it for?
Anyone in publishing who marks up PDFs and wants to work more efficiently, including:
- editorial staff, including co-ordinators, managers, managing editors, project editors and editorial assistants
- freelance and in-house staff who work on PDFs
- indexers
- production staff, including quality controllers, quality assistants and production editors
- project managers
- proofreaders and copy-editors
- translators.
What will you achieve?
- a full understanding of which Adobe Acrobat Commenting tools are best to use and what to use them for
- how to decide the best method of mark-up to work quickly, neatly and efficiently
- how to customize the appearance of mark-ups
- how to manage mark-ups to improve productivity.
Programme
- Mark-up principles for best practice
- Adobe Acrobat mark-up tools – what to use and how
- Customising your tools
- Easy wins for efficient working
- Managing your mark-up
Course format
- Virtual classroom
- 9.00am to 12.30pm
- 2 x 1½-hour sessions plus break
Date information for future sessions
October 2025
- Date: 20 November 2025
- Times: 9.00am to 12.30pm
February 2026
- Date: 5 February 2026
- Times: 9.00am to 12.30pm
September 2026
- Date: 17 September 2026
- Times: 9.00am to 12.30pm
What you will need
To join the course, you will need access to a computer, tablet or laptop with a camera and microphone. You will need to activate a free Zoom account to join the course. This takes 2 minutes and does not require any payment. It is purely for administrative purposes.
About the tutor(s)
Since 1999, Sarah Sodhi has proofed, tagged, bound, corrected, edited, managed, commissioned, subbed, scheduled, estimated and produced a great deal of content – from interactive, multi-media resources to marketing leaflets, from monthly magazines to 900-page medical tomes.
Starting her career at a small medical publisher in Oxford, Sarah produced medical textbooks, journals and a bi-monthly magazine. She then moved into the public sector to work for an adult education charity, introducing formal scheduling procedures, progress-chasing systems and detailed budgets. After this, she immersed herself in the education sector, editing and managing digital and print resources for primary, secondary and adult education publishers.
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