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1300 886 190
Level 1 Adobe 1 day

Adobe Acrobat Essentials Course

9:00am – 4:00pm Six capitals or live online Prerequisite: None

Adobe Acrobat Essentials at a glance.

Duration
1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm
Price
$490 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
Delivery
In person, or live online with a facilitator
Where
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
Prerequisite
None
Class size
Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
You take away
A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
In-house
Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours

What you'll learn.

  • Creating and combining PDFs
  • Editing text and images inside a PDF
  • Comments, mark-up and review cycles
  • Exporting to Word, Excel and images

Course overview.

Combining, editing, commenting, and exporting PDFs that behave.

The 1 day works through 8 modules and 55 individual topics, from The Acrobat workspace to The PDF Portfolio tool. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.

Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.

Full course outline.

Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.

  • 8 modules
  • 55 topics
  • 1 day in the room
  • 1The Acrobat workspace5 topics
    • Panes, panels, toolbars and toolsets explained
    • Moving through a document from the View menu
    • Faster navigation with the Pages pane
    • Showing and hiding tools in your toolset
    • Adapting the workspace to suit you
  • 2Making PDFs10 topics
    • Building a PDF inside Acrobat
    • Making a PDF by dragging files in
    • Converting files, Microsoft Office documents and web pages into PDFs
    • Printing to PDF with the Adobe PDF printer
    • Producing a reduced-size PDF
    • Optimising a PDF to control the quality of individual elements
    • Merging Word, Excel and image files into one PDF
    • How PDF settings and presets work
    • What compression and resampling do
    • Turning scanned text into live text with OCR and the Text Recognition tool
  • 3The Acrobat ribbon in Microsoft Office7 topics
    • Putting the Acrobat ribbon to work in Microsoft Office applications
    • Making PDFs straight from the source application
    • Producing restricted PDFs from the source application so content cannot be viewed or edited without permission
    • Carrying Microsoft Word bookmarks through to Acrobat bookmarks
    • Setting Outlook to archive emails as PDFs automatically
    • Building a PDF and attaching it to an email in Outlook
    • Sending PDF tables out to live Excel spreadsheets
  • 4Editing existing PDFs11 topics
    • Finding and replacing text
    • Adding, extracting, replacing and deleting pages in the Pages panel
    • Rotating, cropping and adding design elements from the Pages panel
    • Numbering the pages
    • Applying a Bates numbering system
    • Editing text and images in the Content Editing panel
    • Pulling text and images out of a PDF
    • Setting font, size, colour, alignment and placement of text
    • Swapping an image inside an existing frame
    • Editing an image in its native program without leaving the PDF
    • Exporting a PDF back to an Office format
  • 5Interactive PDFs5 topics
    • Building a table of contents where every entry jumps to the right page
    • Adding buttons that link to a page or web address
    • Linking to sections from the Bookmarks pane
    • Nesting bookmarks to reach subsections
    • Embedding a video file
  • 6PDF security5 topics
    • The levels of protection available
    • Locking a document down from the Security tab
    • Applying password encryption
    • Wrapping several documents in a security envelope
    • Hiding or permanently removing sensitive content with the Redact feature
  • 7Annotations, markups and reviews9 topics
    • Spotting annotations and markups in a PDF
    • Adding comments and sticky notes to a PDF
    • Applying stamps from the Stamps palette
    • Highlighting passages of text
    • Marking where text should be inserted or replaced
    • Striking through and underlining text
    • Drawing markups to draw the eye to a point
    • Sending a PDF to an Adobe review service and choosing who takes part in the shared review
    • Bringing annotations and markups into a PDF through the FDF format
  • 8The PDF Portfolio tool3 topics
    • Assembling a presentation in the PDF Portfolio tool
    • Choosing a ready-made template and customising it
    • Dropping in your own content

Who it is for.

Anybody who uses Acrobat and has never been shown it properly. No prerequisite and no assumed background beyond ordinary computer confidence.

How it runs.

One day, roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.

Dates

Upcoming Dates

The next scheduled Adobe Acrobat Essentials dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.

LevelDateLocationDeliveryPrice
Acrobat EssentialsMon 14 Sep 26SydneyIn person$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsMon 14 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsWed 23 Sep 26Remote EastOnline$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsWed 23 Sep 26BrisbaneIn person$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsTue 6 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsTue 6 Oct 26BrisbaneIn person$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsThu 22 Oct 26Remote EastOnline$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsThu 22 Oct 26BrisbaneIn person$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsFri 13 Nov 26Remote EastOnline$490Book
Acrobat EssentialsFri 13 Nov 26SydneyIn person$490Book

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Reviews

What people said about Adobe Acrobat Essentials

4.67
from 18 reviews collected by Nexacu

Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.

Overall, it was very satisfactory. The content covered all the essentials I needed to know/learn about. You were very knowledgeable and engaging.

Sheridan
24 February 2025

Great at explaining details in-depth, easy to understand

Jaymima
3 April 2025

David was professional, clear and to the point. Thank you!

Margarita
3 April 2025

David was super knowledgeable and helpful. I learn a lot. Thanks, David!

Megan
3 April 2025

David is a wonderful trainer. Very clear, concise and approachable.I would not hesitate to recommend David.Today has been a great learning tool and I look forward to applying what I have learned into work practice.

Kim
16 June 2025

Very well paced course and good use of real-life examples of when the certain editable options would fit best.

Djuro
16 June 2025

Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.

Questions

Questions People Ask About This Course

Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.

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How long is the Adobe Acrobat Essentials course?
It runs for 1 day, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Adobe Acrobat Essentials cost?
$490 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
No prerequisite. The day assumes ordinary computer confidence and nothing more.
Can I do Adobe Acrobat Essentials online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Adobe Acrobat Essentials in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which Acrobat level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Adobe Acrobat page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.

Whole team on the same level? Run it in-house.

Your files, your templates, your workflow — the same course, taught against your own material.

How in-house works Call 1300 886 190