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PDF Fundamentals

Bookmarks

Bookmarks provide an interactive table of contents for a PDF document. Available in Acrobat's side panel, bookmarks provide enhanced navigation to help readers find information in long documents. Bookmarks are often generated automatically during PDF creation.

To manually create a bookmark:

  1. Open Bookmarks from the side panel.
  2. Navigate to the page you want to bookmark.
    Optionally, select relevant text on the page for the bookmark. The selected text will become the bookmark's name.
  3. Select the Add a new bookmark button.
  4. Enter or edit the name of the bookmark.
  5. Save the file.

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Selecting a bookmark will skip directly to the bookmarked page. Bookmarks can be organized in the Bookmarks side panel by dragging and dropping.


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